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On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:54:52 +0700 |
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> Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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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 |
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>> sentence. |
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>> Soft-RAID is always a catastrophe waiting to happen. |
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> My experience has always been that Linux software raid gets the job |
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> done perfectly, every time, no issues and has never failed me. |
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> Hardware RAID is another story, especially those cheap nasty |
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> onboard pseudo-RAID thingies. DOubly so if the name Adaptec appears |
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> anywhere. |
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Seconding software raid. Looking forward to btrfs being full-featured, |
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though, as integrating lvm and raid functionality sanely into the |
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filesystem a la ZFS is going to be very, very nice. |
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