Rob Lines wrote:
> On Feb 4, 2008 3:16 PM, John R Pierce <
pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:
>
> with LVM, you could join several smaller logical
> drives, maybe 1TB each,
> into a single volume set, which could then contain
> various file systems.
>
>
> That looks like it may be the result. The main reason was to
> keep the amount of overhead and 'stuff' required to revive it
> in the event of a server issue to a minimum. That was one of
> the reasons for going with an enclosure that handles all the
> RAID internally and just presents to the server as a single
> drive. We had been trying to avoid LVM as we had run into
> problems using knoppix recovering it in the past.
>
> It looks like we will probably just end up breaking it up
> into smaller chunks unless I can find a way for the enclosure
> to use 512 sectors and still have greater than 2 tb volumes.