3 points... LVM is a snap - so easy to configure now in RH9
It's flexibility is really a "must have" for any serious server use. Multiple smaller disks are always going to perform better than a single large disk. Ryan On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 16:30, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Is this really worth the trouble? I don't know anything about it, so the > answer might be "yes", but you can get 120GB of storage (IDE) for under > $200 and avoid having to deal with LVM. > > ap > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin > Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill > [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu > > > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, bp wrote: > > > Jason Tower wrote: > > > > >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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TriLUG mailing list > > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > > http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html > > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html -- Ryan Leathers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Global Knowledge _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
