Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

[elvis <elvis@dogonfire.com>]

On 1/7/20 4:51 am, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Miles Fidelman wrote:
> > On 6/29/20 7:20 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> >
> > > Miles Fidelman wrote:
> > > > On 6/29/20 9:10 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Miles Fidelman wrote:
> > > > Now who's being pedantic?
> > > Precisely.
> > >
> > > > And isn't this exactly what I said??? mdadm is an admin program, it doesn't
> > > > perform the raid function.
> > > And it's OK to refer to the whole thing as an mdadm RAID.
> > No.. if you want to be pedantic, the proper terminology is "Linux Raid" or
> > "md RAID."?? mdadm is one of several admin programs available
> What are the others, please? (That will work on a modern system,
> say, Debian stable or oldstable or unstable.)
>
> I think there's precisely one -- libblockdev2.


lvm does its own raid now too...


https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/9kkk3b/md_raid_lvm_vs_lvm_raid/



> > saying "mdadm raid" is like saying "libvert hypervisor" - when what you
> > really mean is Xen, or KVM, or ESXI - accessed through libvert
> >
> > When you're building systems, details matter.
> libvirt.
>
> -dsr-
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