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From: Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@×××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Clarification on LVM vs JBOD
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:42:24
Message-Id: 1144856046.20434.19.camel@neuromancer.home.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Clarification on LVM vs JBOD by Richard Fish
1 On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 08:26 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
2 > On 4/12/06, jarry@×××.net <jarry@×××.net> wrote:
3 > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think "JBOD" (just bunch of disks)
4 > > is a name for some simple sort of multi-disk array, where disks
5 > > are just joined into one volume, without any stripping/mirroring.
6 >
7 > It is actually even simpler than that. It is describing disks
8 > connected to a hardware raid controller, but not part of any array.
9 > They appear to the os as individual drives, essentially just using the
10 > raid controller as a disk controller.
11
12 which essentially just as mentioned /mnt/disk[123] etc right? There's no
13 consolidation into 1 /BIG-Storage-volume but at least one disk dies, the
14 data still retains.
15
16 Raid 5 is nice.. but sacrificing 1 HD space for it is too much for
17 me :-)
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