On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 11:27 -0800, Jeff Lasman wrote:
On Monday 09 January 2006 08:49 pm, Sudev Barar wrote:
However people from my LUG have been using it and claim this to be rock steady...
Never used it. Our backup systems use multiple 250G drives (our next backup server will use multipe 400G drives. We use multiple homeX partitions, and we manage what backs up where so this works for us.
My recollection is that if any drive in an LVM fails the whole LVM fails.
LVM doesn't fail .. but hard drives do. If a hard drive failed that was part of the LVM, you would lose all that info, true. That is why one should use a CRC type RAID (1, 1+0, 5) under LVM ... (or LVM on top of RAID) :)
Then you can replace the failed drive and keep going.
If that's true, then I wouldn't ever use it as it would increase the failure rate.