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From: Henrik Holst <henrik.holst@idgmail.se>
To: Bodo Thiesen <bothie@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-raid mailing list <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ken Walker <ken.walker@manchester.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: why partition arrays?
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 15:39:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <453A232E.8050401@idgmail.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061021062648.23c0bd7a@30_bodo.rupinet>

Bodo Thiesen wrote:
> Ken Walker <ken.walker@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Is LVM stable, or can it cause more problems than separate raids on a array.

[description of street smart raid setup]

(The same function could probably be achieved with logical partitions
and ordinary software raid levels.)

> So, now decide for your own, if you consider LVM stable - I would ;)
> 
> Regards, Bodo

Have you lost any disc (i.e. "physical volumes") since February? Or lost
the meta-data?

I would not recommend anyone to use LVM if they are less than experts on
Linux systems. Setting up a LVM system is easy: administrating and
salvaging the same, was much more work. (I used it ~3 years ago)

/Henrik Holst

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-21 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-19 11:25 why partition arrays? Ken Walker
2006-10-19 15:46 ` Doug Ledford
2006-10-21  4:26 ` Bodo Thiesen
2006-10-21 13:39   ` Henrik Holst [this message]
2006-10-21 19:25     ` Bodo Thiesen
2006-10-24 23:31     ` Bill Davidsen
2006-10-25  0:10       ` dean gaudet
2006-10-22 16:02   ` Nix
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-18 12:42 martin f krafft
2006-10-18 13:26 ` Doug Ledford
2006-10-18 13:43   ` martin f krafft
2006-10-18 21:42     ` Doug Ledford
2006-10-23 15:59 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe

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