OT: need an opinion

[Nathan England]

Understood. Thank you for that clarity...

Puts me in a bad position now... lol
I need more hard drive space but I have no budget for it...

A single file server with only 50gb of backup and multiple servers that need 
backing up. Plus user documents and email... argh. Sometimes corporate life 
stinks.

Luckily I have an extra 250gb USB drive hidden!



On Tuesday 20 June 2006 15:58, you wrote:
> You can stripe it, but it's for performance, not raid.
> It helps with multiple spindle performance, allowing many heads to be
> active at once across multiple disks.  The RAID system (software or
> hardware based, doesn't matter) underneath takes care of the
> redundancy.
>
> --Dan
> --Dan
>
> On 6/20/06, Nathan England <nathan at paysonlinux.org> wrote:
> > I was under the impression that I could setup a type of striping on an
> > LVM group and it would achieve a raid like setup, allowing for fail over
> > and such.
> >
> > Not true?
> >
> > On Tuesday 20 June 2006 15:47, you wrote:
> > > 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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Nathan England
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IT Consultant
Linux Administration / Software Development

	Specializing in Replacing Windows 
	  Problems With Linux Solutions