From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L4cEY-0002L7-Hr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:16:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE6A5E0497; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:12:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.144]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CC0CE0497 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:12:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so762724eyk.10 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:12:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:to:subject :content-disposition:from:date:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=AaCRmHM5D9t/MS/FoEOvKdxJhXfutKFynFbN5crhj1M=; b=Hn4Zy0Vv5AAEQ2zed1NH40SegymhQ3VXzJotEyUobd+Er4PDW3JiFUzJzW9ykNKKhw 3DYfCSqnZCgbEYN8F8gZNLMZATBY8P66hFMWMfcA7fZiuNBmWPF0oBWg2DGU/g+xuSxy NMaN+dT3cQGqtSskWOOmRXXm2/8f9aIlAexRw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=to:subject:content-disposition:from:date:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=nijq/+2UeLQ1wIbAh2Q6VU3duXsOe8CPOqv/OkQCWcLoYsaUZQ1jE02n2xE46l3cKi MQllDBDdkqsdBT11lPSSaNtaM7bPvXOnSwNmVZxX9UDK2Ba/2Y0Rk4NchOCp2Nw97hiL CClTLrBsMdCs0lRHLz3GCPc6QG/G0lTMfJtA4= Received: by 10.210.51.10 with SMTP id y10mr3630758eby.98.1227535929669; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:12:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.af.didata.local (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm370150eyg.52.2008.11.24.06.12.07 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:12:08 -0800 (PST) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems Content-Disposition: inline From: GMail Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:12:00 +0200 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200811241612.00726.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: b629cce7-b23e-4367-88f7-b13503714551 X-Archives-Hash: 9fda00ac9fed5258fb9c1a8262bba290 On Monday 24 November 2008 08:28:33 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > @William: If one or more of the PVs is a Network Block Device, you're not > bound to the local machine. I'd never thought of that, but it makes sense. PV wants a raw block device and couldn't care less if it leads to local disk or something else. How does it cope with network outages though? In my experience, LVM is not exactly graceful when one of it's PVs goes away -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com