Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

[Wei Chen <wchenhk@gmail.com>]

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Greg Folkert wrote:
>       * PV == Physical Volume or some kind of media usable by LVM, these
>         have Physical Extents on them.
>       * VG == Volume Group which is measure in two ways, Extents and
>         PVs. Logical Extents are the measure in which VGs use the PVs.
>         PVs can be added or removed, therefore adding or removing
>         Physical Extents. Logical Extents can be 1:1, or 1:X
>       * LV == Logical Volume, this is the piece typically used with
>         filesystems on them. Depending on *Policy* or creation
>         restrictions, you can have a simple "gobs of disk space", using
>         a 1:1 ratio for LE to PE. Or you can simply create a policy to
>         have LE == 2 or more PE. The in effect mirrors the Extents on
>         separate PVs, eliminating the problems you are talking about. 
> 

So LVM has the power of RAID like redundancy, right?

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Cheers,

Wei Chen
http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/
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