On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:15:37 +0200, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as
one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard
to data safety? If one of them malfunctions, is one of the two
approaches better?
As soon
Hi all!
A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as
one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard
to data safety? If one of them malfunctions, is one of the two
approaches better?
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2011/3/18 Γιώργος Πάλλας gp...@ccf.auth.gr:
Hi all!
A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as
one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard
to data safety? If one of them malfunctions, is one of the two
approaches better?
Mirrored
On 18/03/2011 10:30 πμ, Michael Thompson wrote:
2011/3/18 Γιώργος Πάλλας gp...@ccf.auth.gr:
Hi all!
A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as
one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard
to data safety? If one of them
On 03/18/2011 09:30 AM, Michael Thompson wrote:
2011/3/18 Γιώργος Πάλλαςgp...@ccf.auth.gr:
Hi all!
A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as
one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard
to data safety? If one of them malfunctions,
Γιώργος Πάλλας:
A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as
one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard
to data safety? If one of them malfunctions, is one of the two
approaches better?
If your goal is to use the disks as a single 1TB
On 03/18/2011 09:44 AM, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
On 18/03/2011 10:30 πμ, Michael Thompson wrote:
2011/3/18 Γιώργος Πάλλαςgp...@ccf.auth.gr:
Hi all!
A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as
one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in
18/03/2011 09:15, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
Hi all!
A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as
one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard
to data safety? If one of them malfunctions, is one of the two
approaches better?
Hi, mdadm
On 03/18/2011 03:15 AM, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
Hi all!
A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as
one.
That's called striping.
Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard
to data safety? If one of them malfunctions, is one of the two
On 2011-03-18 03:44:32 Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
The 'data safety' I mentioned gave the wrong impression. Let me
rephrase: I want to use the two disks aggregated (i.e. 1TB), and the
question is if one of the two solutions gives me better chances to get
some of my data back, in case of a full or
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.:
Buy another 500GB disk and do software RAID 5 if you really need 1TB of
space.
It won't be great, but it'll be a LOT safer than what you are proposing.
mdadm can even do RAID10 on three drives (IBM calls it RAID 1E). You'll
get 750GB of space with three 500GB
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