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From: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@cox.net>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Problems and questions with LVM on a large raid system.
Date: Wed Mar 12 16:24:02 2003	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E6FB34E.30003@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030312221320.GA15196@gw.silicide.dk>

jon+lvm@silicide.dk wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:52:17AM -0800, Petro wrote:
> 
>>I've got a couple of brand new boxes I'm trying to get LVM set up
>>properly on. 
>>
>>These machines have 6 200GiB drives attached to a 3ware controller card,
>>for a total of 1,200,000,000,000 bytes of storage. 
> 
> 
> later down you write you need speed. In that case i would suggest
> ditching the hardware raid, and use pure software raid, it is faster.
> I dont mind 3ware, i have dome myself, but my benchmarking revealed
> that software was faster.
> 

True, but I'd sure hate to wait for a software array rebuild when the system 
crashes... I've only got a pair of 160G drives but I still hate waiting when the 
kernel has a problem. If your system is very, very stable this might not be an 
issue.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-12 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-12 13:53 [linux-lvm] Problems and questions with LVM on a large raid system Petro
2003-03-12 16:14 ` jon+lvm
2003-03-12 16:24   ` Kevin P. Fleming [this message]
2003-03-12 16:50     ` jon+lvm
2003-03-12 17:00       ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-03-12 17:17         ` jon+lvm
2003-03-12 17:25           ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-03-12 17:46   ` Petro
2003-03-13  2:44     ` Jon Bendtsen
2003-03-13 18:25       ` Petro
2003-03-14  2:32         ` Adrian Phillips
2003-03-15 13:50       ` Steven Lembark
2003-03-15 16:37         ` jon+lvm
2003-03-18  3:14           ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-12 21:03 Barry, Christopher
2003-03-13  2:45 ` Jon Bendtsen

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