Thanks Tony for the helpful tips! On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Tony Travis <a.tra...@abdn.ac.uk> wrote: > > However, I would avoid relying on LVM mirroring for data protection. It is > much safer to stripe a set of RAID1's using LVM. I don't think LVM is useful > unless you are managing a disk farm. The commonest issue in disk perfomance > is decoupling seeks between different spindles, so I put the system files on > a different RAID1-set to /export (or /home) filesystems.
My problem is that I have several different "storage boxes" each running on RAID5. But I use LVM to aggregate this storage. While doing this I noticed that LVM offers striping too. THat's what got me thinking.... -- Rahul _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
