Re: [Discuss] Insight about LVM

2011-10-24 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/22/2011 08:55 AM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: I'm looking to hear from people using it, things they like, things they dislike, oddities they've encountered, etc. Only negative I've heard is: If you have a logical volume that spans multiple HDD's, and one of the disks goes bad, the file

Re: [Discuss] Insight about LVM

2011-10-24 Thread Rich Braun
David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.net If you have a logical volume that spans multiple HDD's, and one of the disks goes bad, the file system on your LV will be corrupted/lost. (I think this is similar to RAID-0?) So, [installed] physical volumes should be redundant RAID devices themselves to

Re: [Discuss] Insight about LVM

2011-10-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 10/22/2011 01:33 AM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: I've got a pretty good feel for the technology and functionality, I could write a white paper on how to use it. The question I have for this group is this... Do you trust it? Is it reliable? is it a viable technology? LVM is the default for

Re: [Discuss] Insight about LVM

2011-10-22 Thread markw
On 10/22/2011 01:33 AM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: I've got a pretty good feel for the technology and functionality, I could write a white paper on how to use it. The question I have for this group is this... Do you trust it? Is it reliable? is it a viable technology? LVM is the default

Re: [Discuss] Insight about LVM

2011-10-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of ma...@mohawksoft.com On 10/22/2011 01:33 AM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: I've got a pretty good feel for the technology and functionality, I could write a white paper on

Re: [Discuss] Insight about LVM

2011-10-22 Thread Richard Pieri
On Oct 22, 2011, at 8:55 AM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: I'm looking to hear from people using it, things they like, things they dislike, oddities they've encountered, etc. LVM isn't AdvFS. Then again, it's not a file system component like most logical volume managers. LVM (actually LVM2)

[Discuss] Insight about LVM

2011-10-21 Thread markw
I've got a pretty good feel for the technology and functionality, I could write a white paper on how to use it. The question I have for this group is this... Do you trust it? Is it reliable? is it a viable technology? ___ Discuss mailing list