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Am Mittwoch, 12. April 2006 11:29 schrieb ext Ow Mun Heng: |
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> Just wanted to clarify something. |
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> Say I have a bunch of disks, I can go either using JBOD, and mount each |
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> disk eg: |
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> /mnt/disk1 /mnt/disk2 /mnt/disk3 |
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> and use them as is. If one crash, I still retain data on the other 2. |
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> If I use LVM, for ease of configuration and to provide me with just |
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> one /BIG-storage-volume, if I get a curruption of if one of the disks |
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> fail, does the other 2 retain it's data? |
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> My guess is NO and I'm basically screwed if the data is important. |
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This is correct. Did you think about: |
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1) Using sw raid 5 (would loose the capacity of 1 disk, but _all_ data would |
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be save) |
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2) mkdir /BIG-storage-volume and populate it with symlinks |
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into /mnt/disk[123] |
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3) Backups |
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Bye... |
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Dirk |
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