From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nxlhg-000118-7Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:34:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F478E096E; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 18:34:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07698E096E for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 18:34:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 561C8345731 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 19:34:34 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 19:34:33 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem Message-ID: <20100402193433.111fb69b@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <201004021445.29441.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> References: <20100401174711.GA5120@solfire> <20100402130521.2073d35b@digimed.co.uk> <20100402121238.GE28931@solfire> <201004021445.29441.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5cvs43 (GTK+ 2.18.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/ou2.gZEI7o3xZqzqS5o55VU"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 93853ffc-d1b9-4974-875c-6c89a852411f X-Archives-Hash: 172d414b62cc16ae50e54bd38bc7b35c --Sig_/ou2.gZEI7o3xZqzqS5o55VU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick Sacred cows make great hamburgers. --Sig_/ou2.gZEI7o3xZqzqS5o55VU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAku2OLkACgkQum4al0N1GQN1GQCgn0spn2HJSqpISMwxNggLRuiC QoAAoKVDzy8WejbeqfBkJMCz35ZPdhbw =JxBh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/ou2.gZEI7o3xZqzqS5o55VU--