From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j9NI7iV09386 for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:07:44 -0400 Received: from qproxy.gmail.com (qproxy.gmail.com [72.14.204.193]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j9NI7crO012519 for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:07:38 -0400 Received: by qproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id o38so225859qbe for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 11:07:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 20:01:35 +0200 From: Tobias MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [linux-lvm] How does LVM2 handle disc error? 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: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Hi I'm about to set up a file server. How does lvm2 handle disc crashes in a logic volume? The thing is we don't care if the data on just the disc which crashes is gone, we have all data offline on tape and dvds. But we don't want the whole group to crash because of one disc. We would like to not use raid5 and such because one disc is lost. Its for internal use so there will be no heavy load. About 10-20 ppl will use the server for online central storage. Storage size at least 1Tb but we hope for 2Tb or more without any expensive hardware. Only cheap sata expansion cards and discs. /Tobias