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From: Steven Dake <sdake@mvista.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Hardware/Software comparaison of RAID with LVM on Linux
Date: Tue Nov 26 13:33:01 2002	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DE3CCD4.4070502@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: B5B1F1162663D411BB8000508B691B20064F8E17@stimxch1.dev.mediagrif.com

I think you will find software RAID 5 to be a poor performer and would 
recommend raid 1 instead.  This gives you more integrity at the cost of 
some storage.  But hey, storage is cheap and data loss is expensive 
anyway :)

-steve

Jean Aumont wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have been reading the Linux-LVM archives lately to find information 
> on RAID and LVM versus performance.
> I am interested in the report comparaison of software and hardware 
> raid with LVM on Linux that you created.
> Can you send me a copy of this report (.pdf if possible) ?
> I am planning of creatind a raid 5 with 4 x 80Gb disks.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jean Aumont
>
> Jaumont@mediagrif.com
> JeanAumont@videotron.ca
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-26 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-26  9:25 [linux-lvm] Hardware/Software comparaison of RAID with LVM on Linux Jean Aumont
2002-11-26 13:33 ` Steven Dake [this message]
2002-11-27 11:22 ` Jon Bendtsen

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