Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 14:45:29 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:

> seriously lvm sounds nice. But it isn't. It easily breaks.

Do you have something to back that up?

> You want a save setup? Go raid5 or raid6. As a bonus - you can get more
> space if you need it by just adding another disk. And you are not
> depending on some complex stuff to get it working.

LVM and RAID are completely different animals. No one suggested using it
for any reasons of data security, running LVM on a RAID array gives both
security and flexibility. As for being able to add space to RAID, you
can't temporarily add a new volume whenever you want, you have to go out
and buy another drive, then power down the computer to fit it, assuming
there is room in the case for an extra drive.

Remember this thread started with a question about a single large disk.


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Neil Bothwick

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