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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub and what happens exactly when booting.
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:14:47
Message-Id: 20110919161300.473fbbef@rohan.example.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] grub and what happens exactly when booting. by Pandu Poluan
1 On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:54:52 +0700
2 Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
3
4 > > LVM does do striping according to the man page. I've never tried it,
5 > > mostly because LVM is the wrong place to do that IMHO.
6 > >
7 > > Use RAID for that instead and leave LVM to do what it's good at -
8 > > managing storage volumes
9 > >
10 >
11 > Ah, thanks for the correction. Anyways, I agree with your last
12 > sentence.
13 >
14 > Soft-RAID is always a catastrophe waiting to happen.
15 >
16
17 My experience has always been that Linux software raid gets the job
18 done perfectly, every time, no issues and has never failed me.
19
20 Hardware RAID is another story, especially those cheap nasty
21 onboard pseudo-RAID thingies. DOubly so if the name Adaptec appears
22 anywhere.
23
24 --
25 Alan McKinnnon
26 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] grub and what happens exactly when booting. Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] grub and what happens exactly when booting. Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>