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From: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavoz@g.o>
To: gentoo-sparc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] LVM on sparc?
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:59:41
Message-Id: 43FB6301.3050601@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-sparc] LVM on sparc? by Nick Smith
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6 > from everything ive read it doesnt look like LVM has any redundancy, i
7 > mean it is nice to be able to hotadd drives to your LV, but i need
8 > redundancy as well, so it looks like raid1 or 5 would be the way to
9 > go, because the backups would get more intensive as the LV grew right?
10 > what if one drive in your LV dies? do you lose everything on the LV?
11 > sorry for my ignorance, but this LVM is all new to me, and im not
12 > finding any clear answers googling on the net...
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14 Well RAID and LVM are two completely different things, i don't know why
15 you people mix them up.
16 The best of both worlds is RAID1 or RAID5 + LVM.
17 RAID0 is basically the same that LVM does and is just concatenation - no
18 redundancy at all "a big bunch of disks".
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21 Gustavo Zacarias
22 Gentoo/SPARC monkey
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