On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:23:42PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Gerald C.Catling: > > > > I am not a Debian user but I have seen references to LVM here. > > I have 3 drives LVM'd to give me 1.3TB of storage space on my server. > > That was a bad idea. You have no control over or knowledge of which data > went on which drive in this setup. When one disk dies, your whole > filesystem is hosed. This does depend upon the specific setup. If it's striping, then the data is probably unrecoverable. If not, the LV may be restricted to one of the operational PVs (you can specify specific PVs when you call lvcreate, as you can for the striping options). Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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