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From: Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>
To: matt@oddprocess.org,
	LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm or lvm2?
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 03:36:57 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1079984217.4449.6.camel@albert.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040322192910.GA10671@oddprocess.org>

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 03:29, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:

> Do you think using LVM is a reliable method of sharing home directories?
> I have been reading the lists, and I notice that in a lot of cases, if
> one drive dies, you usually lose a lot of information.

That's why you should really only use it on top of redundant storage
like RAID 1 or RAID 5, or in situations where you can afford the risk of
data loss (scratch volumes, hot archives, etc). 

I guess that by its self, LVM could be seen as having many of the same
issues as RAID-0 in terms of data safety - but you're more likely to be
able to do partial recovery with LVM.

I run LVM on a RAID 1 array and a large RAID 5 array, and while I've had
disk failures, I've never suffered any data loss because the layer below
LVM is properly redundant.

Craig Ringer

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-22 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-22 19:29 [linux-lvm] lvm or lvm2? Matthew Daubenspeck
2004-03-22 19:36 ` Craig Ringer [this message]
2004-03-22 20:57   ` Ken Fuchs
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-05  8:57 [linux-lvm] LVM or LVM2? Yanick Quirion
2003-12-05 13:54 ` Jord Tanner
2003-12-08  7:24   ` more

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