On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:13:49 -0700 (PDT), BRM wrote: > So, unless you are looking to use LVM in a soft-RAID solution between > multiple physical drives, not multiple partitions on the same drive, > (e.g. partition A = sda1 + sda2, with mirror on sdb1+sdb2), then I > would not suggest it as should anything happen, it'll make data > recovery that much harder. If your data was valuable enough for you to spend that much time recovering it, it was valuable enough to backup in the first place. Having said that, RAID does provide added security against mechanical failure. -- Neil Bothwick Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.