Roberto Ragusa: >> I usually do not create RAID-1 on the entire disk space, I prefer >> to partition into fixed size fragments (e.g. 4 470GB on a 2TB disk) >> and create many RAID-1 out of partition couples to use as pv. In >> this way the new shiny 4TB disks are just giving me 8 additional >> 470GB pieces, I can create the new RAID-1s and pvs, add them to the >> vg and then use pvmove to decide where the data should be
Mauricio Tavares: > While I agree with the "add the pvs to the vgs, pvmove data, > remove old pvs" approach, I would like to ask more about why you do > not use the entire disk for a raid, instead partition both drives in > many volumes and then create raid1 volumes using the respective > partitions in the two drives. Does that limit the damage due to HD > failure somehow better than a single partition? My guess would be that if always creates everything the same size, it's probably simpler for him to manage. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jul 21 11:57:15 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
