Re: Linux "dynamic disk" (Was: Re: (no subject))

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 12:45, Alan Dayley wrote:
> Michael Havens wrote:
>
> > Today at school they taught us about Windo$ Dynamic Disk capabilities and said something about linux not being able to do like th raid5 thing. I don't know what to comeback on that comment with.
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> > :-)Mike(-:
>
> Software based RAID for Linux. Been in the kernel since 2.2 and very
> stable since 2.4
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
>
> Logical volume management. Been around for a long time too. This
> allows you to create one volume from many disks and remove or add disks
> to this volume.
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
>
> I don't know which would compare to Windows Dynamic Disk but RAID
> certainly is availble, mature and is very stable. Whoever claimed
> otherwise does not know what they are talking about.
>
> Alan
>


This brings up the question, where are you going to school? (if you
don't mind my asking)

Thx,
Bart

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