Sridhar Dhanapalan's message on April 12, 2002 01:17 am, stated: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > LVM? Is that a "virtual machine?" Sort of software RAID without fake RAID > on "hardware" like the cards that are too expensive? <grin>
Linux already has an excellent software RAID implementation. LVM is both a competing and complimentary technology to software RAID, depending on how you use it. You can, I hear, configure an LVM on top of a RAID setup. > I'll go Google-ing and read what I can find about that. I'll save you some trouble. Try http://linux.org.mt/article/lvm and http://www.sistina.com/products_lvm.htm. > So for the two 60 GB hard drives (the one already in the box and the one > that I'm picking up today) I only really need about 8 GB? Actually, you probably won't even need 8GB. But it's always better to have too much than too little, especially when you're dealing with as much as 120GB. > Fine; but what the _h_e_ double hockey sticks do I do with the other 112 > GB? ;-) You can never have enough disc space :) > Thanks for the suggestions, I'll be doing a lot of reading before I > re-install the system I do believe. No problem. ________________________________________________________________________ Thanks for the links. More good material for me to attempt to absorb. Disk space? If more is good then too much must be _just right_! :) -- Charlie in Edmonton, AB., Canada Mandrake 8.2 registered user 244963 4:08am up 6:12, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.46, 0.29
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