RHAS 2.1 does not support LVM but redhat 9 does, setting it up during installation is a snap. there are no GUI tools post-install, but the CLI tools work well.
for a file server with dual IDE disks you can easily do LVM on top of software RAID 1, which gives you the benefits of LVM and disk redundancy at the same time without expensive scsi raid hardware. i've done this on several boxes and have never had any problems. if you want raid 5 i'd suggest using a 3ware ide raid controller instead of software raid, but for mirroring software raid is usually fine. good luck!
We aren't storing anything important so RAID redundancy is not a goal, rather having a single mount point span several physical volumes. (I'm scraping together several old smaller drives)
So, it sounds like RedHat 9 could handle 3 drives setup as a big'ol logical /public mount? RH9 is stable/released now, right?
-bp
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