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how would you go about getting the best of both worlds? raid the disks |
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then put them in an LVM? do you have any details on that? it sounds |
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nice. |
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On 2/21/06, Gustavo Zacarias <gustavoz@g.o> wrote: |
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> > from everything ive read it doesnt look like LVM has any redundancy, i |
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> > mean it is nice to be able to hotadd drives to your LV, but i need |
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> > redundancy as well, so it looks like raid1 or 5 would be the way to |
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> > go, because the backups would get more intensive as the LV grew right? |
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> > what if one drive in your LV dies? do you lose everything on the LV? |
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> > sorry for my ignorance, but this LVM is all new to me, and im not |
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> > finding any clear answers googling on the net... |
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> Well RAID and LVM are two completely different things, i don't know why |
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> you people mix them up. |
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> The best of both worlds is RAID1 or RAID5 + LVM. |
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> RAID0 is basically the same that LVM does and is just concatenation - no |
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> redundancy at all "a big bunch of disks". |
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