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Re: Advice on raid/lvm



On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 09:35:57AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty (dtutty@vianet.ca) wrote:

> Is there an advantage of software raid10 over multiple raid1 arrays
> joined with LVM? 

Speed.
Also reduced complexity, if you can forgo LVM entirely.

Disadvantages are slightly bigger danger of data loss
and increased complexity, if you are using LVM anyway.

> Capacity can be dynamically added with pairs of disks.

Yes. I'd prefer that if speed isn't critical.

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen


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