Re: questions about lvm2

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 01/22/2009 11:20 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:24:45AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 01/21/2009 11:30 PM, Matthew Moore wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 21 January 2009 09:13:07 pm Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > > That is exactly what I would do. Everyone warns about how cataclysmic 
> > > things will happen because your new uber-device has the same failrate as a 
> > > raid-0 setup, but as long as you backup regularly (perhaps to another LV 
> > > made from PV's on different disks) this isn't too much to worry about.
> > Backing up 2+ TB of data will require another 2x 1TB drives.  And 
> > *another* dual-drive external enclosure.
> >
> > My wife will *not* be happy...
>
> Remember, though, that you're adding older drives to the uber-device.
> Even with new drives, the chance of failure increases with more devices.
> This is why RAID was invented.

None are that old.  Smallest is 640GB.

> As for backing up multi-TB datasets, this is why tape drives were
> invented.

She's very tolerant of my hobby.  Bringing in tape drives and silos 
would break that...

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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