[CentOS] lvm 1 drive fails whole vol data lost

Ryan Wagoner rswagoner at gmail.com
Sat Dec 25 19:23:18 UTC 2010


On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 08:47 -0500, Ryan Wagoner wrote:
>> Not to mention the speed increases from RAID 5 or 10.
>
> Speed increase from RAID 10 yes, not RAID 5.
> <http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/BAARF2.html>

RAID 5 does provide speed increases for read operations. There are
still some applications where RAID 5 has its benefits. For a smaller
department file server 3-4 TB drives in RAID 5 works great. The money
saved can be put towards backups, etc. Having said that I use RAID 10
for most applications.

Ryan



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