Re: [CentOS] lvm 1 drive fails whole vol data lost

2010-12-26 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Ryan Wagoner rswago...@gmail.com wrote: RAID 5 does provide speed increases for read operations. There are still some applications where RAID 5 has its benefits. For a smaller department file server 3-4 TB drives in RAID 5 works great. The money saved can be

Re: [CentOS] lvm 1 drive fails whole vol data lost

2010-12-26 Thread William Warren
On 12/26/2010 11:04 AM, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Ryan Wagonerrswago...@gmail.com wrote: RAID 5 does provide speed increases for read operations. There are still some applications where RAID 5 has its benefits. For a smaller department file server 3-4 TB drives in RAID

Re: [CentOS] lvm 1 drive fails whole vol data lost

2010-12-25 Thread Ryan Wagoner
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Benjamin Smith li...@benjamindsmith.com wrote: IMHO, very few people really need RAID. In many (most?) cases, the added complexity of RAID is as likely to cause an increase of failure rate similar to or greater than the reduction of failure rate caused by the

Re: [CentOS] lvm 1 drive fails whole vol data lost

2010-12-25 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 08:47 -0500, Ryan Wagoner wrote: On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Benjamin Smith li...@benjamindsmith.com wrote: IMHO, very few people really need RAID. In many (most?) cases, the added complexity of RAID is as likely to cause an increase of failure rate similar to or

Re: [CentOS] lvm 1 drive fails whole vol data lost

2010-12-25 Thread Ryan Wagoner
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 08:47 -0500, Ryan Wagoner wrote: Not to mention the speed increases from RAID 5 or 10. Speed increase from RAID 10 yes, not RAID 5. http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/BAARF2.html RAID 5 does

Re: [CentOS] lvm 1 drive fails whole vol data lost

2010-12-25 Thread William Warren
On 12/24/2010 7:57 AM, Markandeya wrote: Dear Friends of CentOS, I read a reply by John R Pierce, Re: [CentOS] LVM change disk December 04, 2010 01:30PM do you realize that if any one of those 4 miscellaneous drives fails, you lose the whole volume? Can anyone confirm this? and thank you to

[CentOS] lvm 1 drive fails whole vol data lost

2010-12-24 Thread Markandeya
Dear Friends of CentOS, I read a reply by John R Pierce, Re: [CentOS] LVM change disk December 04, 2010 01:30PM do you realize that if any one of those 4 miscellaneous drives fails, you lose the whole volume? Can anyone confirm this? and thank you to John above. 2: can you add(extend) a physical

Re: [CentOS] lvm 1 drive fails whole vol data lost

2010-12-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
Markandeya wrote on 12/24/2010 07:57 AM: ... do you realize that if any one of those 4 miscellaneous drives fails, you lose the whole volume? Can anyone confirm this? Yes. 2: can you add(extend) a physical hdd with data to a LV without losing the data? No. 3: can you remove one hdd to

Re: [CentOS] lvm 1 drive fails whole vol data lost

2010-12-24 Thread Ryan Wagoner
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Markandeya mrc55...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Friends of CentOS, I read a reply by John R Pierce, Re: [CentOS] LVM change disk December 04, 2010 01:30PM do you realize that if any one of those 4 miscellaneous drives fails, you lose the whole volume? Can anyone

Re: [CentOS] lvm 1 drive fails whole vol data lost

2010-12-24 Thread Benjamin Smith
On Friday, December 24, 2010 06:40:06 am Ryan Wagoner wrote: LVM is just like the name implies a logical volume manager. It allows you to easily combine and carve space from physical disks. It doesn't provide any redundancy. If you want redundancy you either need to use the LVM mirror