On 03/11/2013 06:24 PM, Stuart Jansen wrote: > On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 17:05 +0530, Dan Egli wrote: >> Problem with LVM is it doesn't offer any failover protection that I am >> aware of. > LVM can provide RAID. See --mirror and --type in the lvcreate man page. > However, most people combine it with mdadm when they want RAID. > There has been some work to add additional RAID levels to LVM, as well as thin provisioning, but I don't think I would trust any of them in production just yet. So, if software raid is where you're headed, I think I would lean to mdadm instead.
Whatever you do, don't forget to turn off the drive's internal caches for any RAID setup. You're just asking for trouble if you don't. Grazie, ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
