RE: Dynamically increase/reduce hardware raid partition?
Allan Wind wrote:
> On 2004-04-14T22:24:00+1000, Michael Bellears wrote:
>> I also came across LVM
>> (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html)
>> - Can anyone comment on the effectiveness/stability and if it would
>> be appropriate to my situation?..It certainly looks interesting.
>
> Installed LVM on my work-station years ago to allow my
> paritions to grow as needed, but I have not had to use that
> feature. LVM has been rock stable otherwise. I hit a small
> problem in the boot scripts (already fixed, I think),
> otherwise the upgrade from lvm1 to 2 just worked.
Hmm...just wodering how appropriate it is with a raid array...
>
> If you look at LVM, then you should also take a look at the
> MD and EVMS as well, but I am not sure that these make that
> much sense when you have a raid controller already.
>
> LVM and EVMS support snapshots which is an interesting (partial)
> backups solution.
>
Ta - I'll have a look at them..
Regards,
MB
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