On Thursday 07 April 2011 11:35:42 BRM wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- > > > From: J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> > > I think the issue comes from the fact that LVM2 supports Mirroring without > an underlying RAID controller: > > http://tinyurl.com/3woh2d7 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_%28Linux%29 > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/performance/59776 > > Which would be a redundancy.
Ok, I wasn't aware of that bit. >From the first hit in the google-list, I do think that LVM-mirror isn't really ready. Especially as the read-performance is less then using software raid. I don't find mdadm difficult to use though. It's a vast improvement over the old raidtools. > > I do hope you didn't loose too much important data when you had this > > issue. > > No, I didn't loose any important data (fortunately). If I did, I would have > paid for the drive to be recovered; it was mostly portage, var/tmp, some > extra sandbox stuff, kind of things. Glad to hear that. -- Joost
