Scott Russell said: >> Christian Schulte said: >> >> I have had many many troubles with the linux LVM itself. I lost 250GB >> because of LVM and did not have a backup. >> >> So the problem was that you didn't have backups rather than a fault of >> the LVM, right? > > No. The problem described is LVM caused a loss of data.
Interesting. I'd be interested to know how the LVM caused data loss. I've been thinking of implementing the Linux LVM solution for the Cyrus implementation I admin and would like to hear about the pitfalls and the peril from folks who've been burned by it. I don't have the deep pockets for a NetApp, but a hardware RAID solution in conjunction with the Linux LVM sounded promising. Of course, if I did put together such a solution, I'd backup the snapshots ... > Just because you have a backup doesn't mean you don't [sic] loose data. > It just means you have the possibility of recovering previously lost data. True just as relying on one aspect of disaster recovery puts one in the fecal stream without a means of propulsion ;-) That's a situation I'm currently in that I would like to plan a way out. Every one will experience hardware failure at some point, so best to plan a solution before it happens. -- Brian
