On Freitag 02 April 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 14:45:29 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > seriously lvm sounds nice. But it isn't. It easily breaks. > > Do you have something to back that up? > > > You want a save setup? Go raid5 or raid6. As a bonus - you can get more > > space if you need it by just adding another disk. And you are not > > depending on some complex stuff to get it working. > > LVM and RAID are completely different animals. No one suggested using it > for any reasons of data security, running LVM on a RAID array gives both > security and flexibility. As for being able to add space to RAID, you > can't temporarily add a new volume whenever you want, you have to go out > and buy another drive, then power down the computer to fit it, assuming > there is room in the case for an extra drive. >
no need to power down - and you can add and remove drives. Read man mdadm.
