On 06/02/2013 05:19 AM, Michael Ekstrand wrote:
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 agree. Many years ago I ran the prgmr.com stuff using LVM mirrors
(rather than md mirrors with LVM on top as I do now) and... it was very
painful. As far as I can tell, the big problem is that nobody else uses
it, so you run into all sorts of weird bugs.
It's possible this has changed (I mean, it /has/ been many years now)
but I'll believe when I see.
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