> There are people that will try to convince you to skip LVM and use ZFS,
> but everyone I know that was using ZFS took off to the Great White > North. ;-) Problem with LVM is it doesn't offer any failover protection that I am aware of. I admit I have not looked at lvm in some time, but last I looked the way it worked was as soon as any device in the group failed the entire group failed. And while it is possible (with some work) to recover the information from non-failed devices, the info that was on the failed device is lost forever (unless you have a good recent backup). That's why I was looking at using mdadm to create a RAID 6 or something. The combination of capacity is good, but I need the failover protection too. As far as partitions go, don't you need to at least partition a drive before you can add it to a lvm group? I was under the impression you did. If that's the case, then you'd at least need some kind of fdisk (maybe cfdisk), wouldn't you? :) --- Dan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
