From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jens@pinguin.conetix.de Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 20:03:12 +0100 Subject: [linux-lvm] LVM or mdutils/raidtools? Message-ID: <19990218200312.C1529@debian.zuhause.de> References: <19990216180955.G972@debian.zuhause.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from Shawn Leas on Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 03:56:48PM -0600 Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sleas@ixion.honeywell.com, linux-lvm@msede.com On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 03:56:48PM -0600, Shawn Leas wrote: > On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 jens@pinguin.conetix.de wrote: > > not yet. I am wonderin whether I should. Or probably use > > mdutils/raidtools instead. Maybe you can give me an ( unbiased ;> ) > > suggestion. > Using LVM you would gain experience useful in Solaris, HPUX, etc... I do not need that just yet, it's only a home system. > Also, it's a LOT more flexible, and extensible. ACK, but partitions do not change _that_ often round here. What I would like, though is to seamlessly integrate a new hard disk into the existing volumes, when using striping. >> Primary issue is speed, but of course (as I have not had a single disk >> failure save my two ZIP drives which were both broken) data safety would >> be important as well. I do monthly complete backups (roughly) but I just >> cannot afford a filesystem slowly corrupting itself. > For being labeled ALPHA, LVM is awesome. I haven't had a single LV > related issue that I can see. I'll play around with it on my 'playground server'. If I like it, I'll probably use it. Thanks. :) -- _ciao, Jens_______________________________ http://www.pinguin.conetix.de cat /dev/boiler/water | tea | sieve > /cup mount -t hdev /dev/human/mouth01 /mouth ; cat /cup >/mouth/gulp