I've been using software RAID under Linux w/ Cyrus for almost 5 years.. My recommendation -- don't. We're switching to hardware RAID 5. It costs -- a lot for good hardware, but in the end it is worth it. Most of my problems w/ the machines has been related to the software raid.
Brian wrote: > > Christian Schulte said: > > > I have had many many troubles with the linux LVM itself. I would rather > > suggest using a well configured linux softare raid. This is much more > > stable than LVM! I lost 250GB because of LVM and did not have a backup. > > With software raid on linux this would not have happened.... > > So the problem was that you didn't have backups rather than a fault of the > LVM, right? > > -- > Brian