On Monday 11 December 2006 07:57, Tim Post wrote:
> My question is , what is the correct way to calculate the physical
> extent size of a volume group relative to the size of the array?
From man vgcreate:
If the volume group metadata uses lvm1 format, extents can vary
in size from 8KB to 1
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 13:37, Pete Clarke wrote:
> I am basically looking for the solution that provides the best balance
> between performance (speed is really an issue) and flexibility.
One point to make which others might point out as well is the risk of
going to raid0. if one disk dies, you wil
> Are you using hardware RAID or software RAID? It sounds like you intend
> to use software RAID. It doesn't really change much, though.
The Fileserver has 3 hardware RAID cards with onboard cache.
All discs are SCSI.
> If you don't actually want RAID functionality, you can use LVM to glue
> all
hi ya pete
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Pete Clarke wrote:
> Just treat each drive as a seperate device (i.e JBOD) and create a PV for
> each disc and use software striping where necessary, or define each array as
> one big RAID 0 (backup is taken care of) and create lots of little
> partitions to use a
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 01:37:16PM +0100, Pete Clarke wrote:
} Hi gurus...
}
} I have a question regarding LVM and RAID.
}
} I have a 324gb and 350gb RAID enclosure, the 324gb consists of 9 x 36gb
} discs, and the other is 7 x 50gb discs.
} This space is destined for a file server, and usually I
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