On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:15:37 +0200, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
> A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as
> one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard
> to data safety? If one of them malfunctions, is one of the two
> approaches better?
As s
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.:
>
> Buy another 500GB disk and do software RAID 5 if you really need 1TB of
> space.
> It won't be great, but it'll be a LOT safer than what you are proposing.
mdadm can even do RAID10 on three drives (IBM calls it RAID 1E). You'll
get 750GB of space with three 500GB dr
On 2011-03-18 03:44:32 Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
>The 'data safety' I mentioned gave the wrong impression. Let me
>rephrase: I want to use the two disks aggregated (i.e. 1TB), and the
>question is if one of the two solutions gives me better chances to get
>some of my data back, in case of a full or par
On 03/18/2011 03:15 AM, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
Hi all!
A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as
one.
That's called "striping".
Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard
to data safety? If one of them malfunctions, is one of the two
18/03/2011 09:15, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as
> one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard
> to data safety? If one of them malfunctions, is one of the two
> approaches better?
>
>
Hi,
On 03/18/2011 09:44 AM, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
On 18/03/2011 10:30 πμ, Michael Thompson wrote:
2011/3/18 Γιώργος Πάλλας:
Hi all!
A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as
one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard
to data sa
Γιώργος Πάλλας:
>
> A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as
> one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard
> to data safety? If one of them malfunctions, is one of the two
> approaches better?
If your goal is to use the disks as a single
On 03/18/2011 09:30 AM, Michael Thompson wrote:
2011/3/18 Γιώργος Πάλλας:
Hi all!
A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as
one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard
to data safety? If one of them malfunctions, is one of the two
a
On 18/03/2011 10:30 πμ, Michael Thompson wrote:
> 2011/3/18 Γιώργος Πάλλας :
>
>> Hi all!
>>
>> A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as
>> one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard
>> to data safety? If one of them malfunctions, is o
2011/3/18 Γιώργος Πάλλας :
> Hi all!
>
> A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as
> one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard
> to data safety? If one of them malfunctions, is one of the two
> approaches better?
Mirrored raid would be t
David B Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there a way to compute a sun-style checksum on a debian machine?
> (sum on linux and the suns produces different numbers)
Did the option --sysv produces the expected result?
Torsten
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