On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Jochen Scharrlach wrote:
> - it seems to have more features, though I'm missing a concept for a
> mirrored root partition (it may be there, but I haven't found anything
> yet). The commandline tool is quite nice and it even has some kind of
> logical volume manager (though I'm not convinced that it reaches the
> one of HP-UX).
I personally do not find the Linux version 'lacking' features (ie. it's
implementation very transparent as you mentioned). A GUI volume manager
may be nice to see what's going on, but it certainly wouldn't be overly
difficult to write one to wrap the command-line tools (what a good idea
:-) I have not seen the one from HP-UX, so I cannot comment on that.
> - duplicating a partition layout is much easier :)
Does this mean it's possible to build a RAID1 configuration from a single
disk without having to reformat?
> - I like the concept of named volumes
I suppose it could be handy if you had a lot of volumes to manage.
My experience with Linux software RAID is still quite limited. I've tried
striping, RAID1, and RAID5 at home. I presently have a 3 disk RAID5 array
running some "common" files which I make available on my home LAN. So
far, so good. I still don't have it shutting down properly and
automatically being brought up at boot-time, which is still a little bit
of a pain.
Mike.
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Mike Frisch
Software Engineer
Hummmingbird Communications, Ltd.
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