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.
next prev parent 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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