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 -- Nathan England nathan@paysonlinux.org IT Consultant Linux Administration / Software Development Specializing in Replacing Windows Problems With Linux Solutions --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss