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On Sunday 14 December 2008 11:04:39 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> LVM's support for mirroring and striping is exceptionally crude to say |
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> the least. You will also have problems if your stripes do not align with |
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> the underlying volume. Seeing as LVM is designed to make volume |
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> management easier and RAID is designed to provide redundancy, it is best |
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> to completely dispense with the mirror/stripe "features" of LVM and leave |
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> that to the thing that does it best - RAID - while letting LVM do what it |
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> does best - making your life infinitely easier with volume management. |
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> Plus, most built-in so-called hardware RAID solutions are utter crap and |
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> nothing worth the silicon they are built on. Linux software raid is many |
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> times better. Rule of thumb is that if the OS can see the underlying |
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> volumes that make up the RAID, you do not have real hardware RAID. You |
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> instead have something else that a marketing person decided would be cute |
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> if it were called hardware RAID. Calling a duck a swan does not make it |
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> anything other than a duck ;-) |
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So it's fair to say you don't like MB RAID, then? ;-) |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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