OT: need an opinion

[Dan Lund]

LVM != raid.

LVM is logical volume management, which is allocated over RAID.

--Dan

On 6/20/06, Nathan England <nathan at paysonlinux.org> wrote:
>
> I don't know how much I trust linux LVM as I haven't experienced a drive
> failure and recovery yet. I have a machine with a current raid 5 setup with 5
> 17GB scsi drives. A sixth 80gb scsi drive is available but cannot be added to
> the raid 5.
>
> I am considering dumping the raid 5 and allowing LVM to group all the drives
> together. I have two questions...
>
> 1) Is LVM easily recovered like the raid 5 should a drive fail?
> 2) Will I even be able to have any redundancy with this 80 gb playing with the
> 17's?
>
> Nathan
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