On 06/01/2013 09:46 AM, Matthew Goff wrote: > Can anyone provide recommendations between LVM, ZFS, or some other > fancy filesystem for redundant home storage? Pros/cons? I've been > leaning ZFS on BSD but I honestly have never used either system.
I would *not* recommend using LVM for the redundancy. It's a fine tool to use on top of other redundancy, but the one time I needed to use its mirroring capabilities in degraded mode it was slow, painful, and very noisy about not having its mirror. I use raw ext4 on an mdadm soft-raid mirroring configuration across 2 disks in my NAS/media server, and it works very well. I could run lvm on top of that if I needed to be able to span file systems across disks, but at present have no need. - Michael -- Michael Ekstrand — http://elehack.net _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.prgmr.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
