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On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:26:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about "Re: |
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[gentoo-user] grub and what happens exactly when booting.": |
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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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But LVM and software RAID do that in the same place: the "dm" driver, |
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inside the kernel. Using LVM to create stripes, when that is the only |
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RAID-like feature you need, eliminates the complexity of having the RAID |
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software installed. |
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Regards, |
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Dave [RLU #314465] |
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dwnoon@××××××××.com (David W Noon) |
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