On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 03:45:16PM -0500, Alex Brekken wrote:
If one wanted redundancy only (is that RAID-0??) then I take it you would
skip LVM entirely, correct? - IOW, are the 2 mutually exclusive or can you
use LVM with RAID? The reason I ask is because I'm starting to put together
some
Thanks Brandon, that makes sense. For a masterbackend server that
will probably have at most 2 clients, I don't get the feeling that
striping the drives is necessary from a performance standpoint.
I'm still trying to decide how to tackle the redundancy/backup
issue. I'm wondering if doing this via
Alex Brekken wrote:
Thanks Brandon, that makes sense. For a masterbackend server that
will probably have at most 2 clients, I don't get the feeling that
striping the drives is necessary from a performance standpoint. I'm
still trying to decide how to tackle the redundancy/backup issue.
On Friday 14 October 2005 14:25, Alex Brekken wrote:
Steve, is there any way to add an LVM on an up-and-running system, or must
it be done during the OS install when partitioning the disk? (sorry, I
don't mean to hijack this thread but I figured this would be a quick
answer) Thanks!
On
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 03:11:42PM -0400, Steve Adeff wrote:
another option if you find yourself recording this much is to use LVM
(logical
volume manager). It would allow you to connect, say four 300gig drives
and use them all as one AND stripe data across them (like RAID 0). Or you
On Friday 14 October 2005 16:13, Brandon Beattie wrote:
Before you go running off let me give you a warning. Although LVM
supports striping, adding/removing disks, shrinking and growing fs's,
they do _not_ all work together. If you stripe you can't add/remove
disks or change fs size. If
If one wanted redundancy only (is that RAID-0??) then I take it
you would skip LVM entirely, correct? - IOW, are the 2 mutually
exclusive or can you use LVM with RAID? The reason I ask is
because I'm starting to put together some plans to build a master
backend server (currently I have a
On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 14:13 -0600, Brandon Beattie wrote:
ng and writing 100+ gig files) plus the 5yr warranty comes
in nice, since of 9 drives I've had in the last 3 years, half the Maxtor
200GB drives have gone bad.
I just want to second this. I have had two 160GB Maxtor drives die
within a
On Friday 14 October 2005 16:45, Alex Brekken wrote:
If one wanted redundancy only (is that RAID-0??) then I take it you would
skip LVM entirely, correct? - IOW, are the 2 mutually exclusive or can you
use LVM with RAID? The reason I ask is because I'm starting to put together
some plans to
