[LUNI] Setting up / on an LVM

Jay Strauss me at heyjay.com
Sun Feb 13 20:16:07 CST 2005


Richard Reina wrote:
> Wouldn't a raid card be more reliable?  I bought and
> isntalled a rocket raid card for a server I built
> about a year and a half ago and it was about $150 or
> so.  Setting up a LVM seems a bit, well less than
> robust.  Am I way off in suggesting so?
> 
> Richard

They address different issues.  The raid card provides redundancy, same 
as software raid.  The LVM is a mechanism for being able to flexibly 
partition a device (raid or otherwise)

Jay


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