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 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 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 > > > > -- > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > -- > > > > Nathan England > > nathan@paysonlinux.org > > > > IT Consultant > > Linux Administration / Software Development > > > > Specializing in Replacing Windows > > Problems With Linux Solutions -- 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