[CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

[Toby Bluhm]

John R Pierce wrote:
> Ray Van Dolson wrote:
>> Can't Linux LVM do mirroring?  I swear I read that it could in the man
>> page.  Never have tried it however and you certainly can't set it up
>> from disk druid in anaconda.
>>   
> 
> 
> dunno.  the word 'mirror occurs exactly once in the man page for lvm(8)
> 
>         lvconvert -- Convert a logical volume from linear to mirror or 
> snapshot.
> 
> 


It's in the lvcreate manpage . . .


LVM mirroring seems rather quirky to me - I'd rather use md raid1 sets 
as phy vols.


-- 
tkb