Re: sum two disks using RAID or LVM?
18/03/2011 09:15, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> 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?
>
>
Hi, mdadm is the tool and raid0 will do what you want (500+500=1000).
Assume all data will be lost in case of a problem with the raid, in
practice it could be possible to recover some data, but I wouldn't count
on that. Backup, raid0 increases the likeliness of a failure.
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