Re: lvm vs traditional partitioning
i asking it because i was thinking in use lvm in desktop setup , and i can live with a harddisk lose and the data on it , but not with all data lost
pd: i have some small HD
On 12/29/06,
Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@connexer.com> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 10:50:53AM -0400, E0x wrote:
> a question about lvm , if i have 3 harddisk in a lvm setup for save data ,
> and dont have any raid setup , just lvm for make a big virtual HD , now on
> of the 3 HD goes damage i can start with the other 2 left and only missing
> the data that was copy in the 3 HD area ?
>
That is only if you are very lucky. When you create a volume group or a
logical volume, you can specify which physical volumes it should use for
those, but that sort of defeats the purpose of LVM, which should handle
those sorts of things for you transparently.
Without RAID, you are really relying only on luck to keep your data
safe. Do yourself a favor setup a RAID5 and run your LVM over that.
Regards,
-Roberto
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