From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Leslie Rhorer" Subject: RE: A few remaining questions about installing to RAID-10 Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:20:31 -0500 Message-ID: <20091025052035244.CGDC5890@cdptpa-omta01.mail.rr.com> References: <891314.17866.qm@web38807.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <891314.17866.qm@web38807.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids I apologize for the late reply. In all the myriad e-mail I get, I missed this one. > --- On Mon, 10/5/09, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > > Indeed, as I mentioned, adfas might be well > > served with LVM volumes > > on each machine. It certainly would provide great > > performance, although as > > I also mentioned, I don't think drive performance is really > > his problem, per > > se. > > Hang on a sec. LVM would make it easy to add drives. And as I understood > it, you recommend a RAID in the garage and another in the HTPC, LVMed > together? No. I am suggesting an LVM volume in the HTPC and an LVM volume in the garage. 'No RAID at all. > Well with this I could add another array, but that's not what's > needed. I'd need to add a drive to the garage and another to the HTPC, > which means each of those arrays would need to be completely > reconstructed. > > OTOH if I set up the garage as an LVM and the HTPC as another, then RAID > those LVMs together, maybe I could add a drive to each LVM... AS LONG AS I > add the same size drive to BOTH the garage and HTPC for expansion? And no > need to completely reconstruct the RAID array? That might be possible. I don't really recommend it, but it might be made to work.