[CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?
Toby Bluhm
tkb at alltechmedusa.com
Wed Feb 18 20:29:05 UTC 2009
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.
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tkb
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