Wol wrote: > On 27/03/2022 21:36, Wol wrote: >> I don't know either. I'm just far more familiar with the dm/md layer >> because I run md-raid over dm-integrity. Hence dm-crypt. >> >> Is cryptsetup a layer in its own right, or part of lvm? I prefer the >> Unix "use several tools each of which does one thing well", other >> people prefer a swiss army knife like ZFS or btrfs. I don't know >> where cryptsetup lies on that spectrum, and I don't know your >> preferences on that spectrum. > > Just seen Rich's message, so now I know :-) > > But it's just hit me - you have three PV's joined into one LV? Is that > effectively raid-0? If so, you know you have just TREBLED your risk of > losing your home drive? (Although I do know the risk is low to start > with.) > > Don't know what really to suggest though, other than getting a new 8TB > drive and converting it to a 3x8TB 16TB raid-5 ... and you said you > didn't want to splash out on a new drive ... > > Cheers, > Wol > >
I don't have RAID at all. Just three drives being used as /home on LVM. I should use RAID but I have a backup that gets done each week. I wouldn't lose much even if it crashed and burned badly. The biggest loss might would be emails. I think I have gmail set up to save them so I think it would download whatever was missing from the last backup restoration. I need to check that. Dale :-) :-)
