OT: need an opinion

[Nathan England]

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