[LUNI] Setting up / on an LVM

[Martin Maney]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 05:26:58PM -0800, Richard Reina wrote:
> Wouldn't a raid card be more reliable?  I bought and

If you're starting from scratch. you betcha.  That's why there are
three 3ware controllers in machines in this room (the fourth one is a
laptop).  The proliant is an old hand-me-down, has limited capacity for
mounting hard drives aside from the hotplug SCSI bays, and came with a
useful quantity of still-working SCSI drives on hotplug carriers. 
Those last are, of course, why I was playing around with RAID rebuilds
last week!

> so.  Setting up a LVM seems a bit, well less than
> robust.  Am I way off in suggesting so?

Only in that LVM is orthogonal to RAID.

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