Γιώργος Πάλλας:
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> A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as
> one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard
> to data safety? If one of them malfunctions, is one of the two
> approaches better?
If your goal is to use the disks as a single 1TB filesystem, both
approaches will make your data inaccessible in case of a single disk
failure. Both can do striping and/or mirroring, but using LVM for that
is less common.
I suggest RAID1 as the "safe" option and LVM if you don't want to waste
the space. But that's probably only because I am more experienced using
LVM tools than mdadm.
Oh, and backups don't hurt either way. :)
J.
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