> Lots of other people responded, but I need to add my 2 cents. There > is nothing unreliable about LVM. I've used it on many production > servers, many people use it for their MythTV system. You just don't > have it configured correctly. Have you read the LVM HOWTO? It's very > useful and easy to find on google, it may be included with your LVM > install.
That part about LVM that I'm curious about (and anyone who knows this, feel free to chime in) is what happens when you want to remove / move a drive? If I accidently put the drives back in my system in the wrong place (for example, hdb and hdg get swapped), does LVM know which partition goes where? is there a way to tell it which drives should be in the volume group if they change without having to re-create the whole thing? (obviously if I remove a drive with data on it, it will mess up, but if I swap around a few of them or put them at different device labels, can LVM be trained about the change?) I really like the idea of LVM, and I especially like having a single partition made up of three 160 gig drives - but I'm worried about what might happen if any of those three drives needed to be moved, removed, etc. Do I automatically lose all my data? - Jeff _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
