On Sunday 14 December 2008 11:04:39 Alan McKinnon wrote: > LVM's support for mirroring and striping is exceptionally crude to say > the least. You will also have problems if your stripes do not align with > the underlying volume. Seeing as LVM is designed to make volume > management easier and RAID is designed to provide redundancy, it is best > to completely dispense with the mirror/stripe "features" of LVM and leave > that to the thing that does it best - RAID - while letting LVM do what it > does best - making your life infinitely easier with volume management. > > Plus, most built-in so-called hardware RAID solutions are utter crap and > nothing worth the silicon they are built on. Linux software raid is many > times better. Rule of thumb is that if the OS can see the underlying > volumes that make up the RAID, you do not have real hardware RAID. You > instead have something else that a marketing person decided would be cute > if it were called hardware RAID. Calling a duck a swan does not make it > anything other than a duck ;-)
So it's fair to say you don't like MB RAID, then? ;-) -- Rgds Peter
