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On Sep 19, 2011 2:29 PM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:51:03 +0700 |
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> Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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> > I'm not sure if LVM by itself implement striping. Most likely not |
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> > because LVM usually starts with 1 HD then gets additional PVs added. |
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> > Plus there's the possibility that the second PV has a different size. |
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> > I might be wrong, though, since all my experience with LVM involves |
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> > only one drive. |
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> LVM does do striping according to the man page. I've never tried it, |
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> mostly because LVM is the wrong place to do that IMHO. |
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> Use RAID for that instead and leave LVM to do what it's good at - |
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> managing storage volumes |
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Ah, thanks for the correction. Anyways, I agree with your last sentence. |
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Soft-RAID is always a catastrophe waiting to happen. |
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Rgds, |
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