From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k33Dlu7d029571 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 09:47:56 -0400 Received: from lug-owl.de (lug-owl.de [195.71.106.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k33Dltfx011431 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 09:47:55 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 15:47:54 +0200 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM NOT scary! Message-ID: <20060403134754.GV1259@lug-owl.de> References: <443115F0.8030503@watford53.freeserve.co.uk> <20060403124112.GP19029@fencepost> <20060403124601.GR1259@lug-owl.de> <443125FE.9020501@watford53.freeserve.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="O3bhLwMadv7h6/J9" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <443125FE.9020501@watford53.freeserve.co.uk> Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: To: LVM general discussion and development --O3bhLwMadv7h6/J9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2006-04-03 14:41:18 +0100, Jim Ford wrote: > Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > >Full ACK. The most scary cases are those where people expect to get > > > >high-availability by LVM'ing some IDE disks together. > > > >Hey, LVM on MD really is a nice thing, even dm-crypt ontop, works > >flawlessly :) > What, you mean Mini Disk - the little magneto optical disks used for=20 > personal audio players? What's the advantage in that, aren't they only=20 > about a 1 gig storage? No, Linux' MultiDisk stuff was ment (SoftRAID). You take a bunch of HDDs, put it to different controllers and configure those *carefully* after *thinking* to show up as a RAID device. Then you can use LVM (again, after careful thinking) with these. MfG, JBG --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 = _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg = _ _ O f=C3=BCr einen Freien Staat voll Freier B=C3=BCrger" | im Internet! | i= m Irak! O O O ret =3D do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA)= ); --O3bhLwMadv7h6/J9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEMSeKHb1edYOZ4bsRAl5kAKCRZsxnXiOleRrzEJX2CxNwAf7VIgCfZpST Rhcu3NRPIUCDLDqa/Efs9E4= =nSLz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --O3bhLwMadv7h6/J9--