OT: need an opinion

[Nathan England]

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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