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 1Nxmt6-000802-Ca for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:50:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55B73E09EB; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 19:50:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f213.google.com (mail-fx0-f213.google.com [209.85.220.213]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 131F1E09EB for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 19:50:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm5 with SMTP id 5so1883253fxm.29 for ; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:50:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=Q+LIQ0H4tU17894GqNrsBJaGen3mIZaTvK/MYP/oRiY=; b=mQqMJKbUJF45loqFCz+ozh8dHamtu68lm642naPQRAoamvymws8N0+Ei/n4nJCVgOm Gb7qGynRbTyHfF4QWNb6nt1WZxV2joyrzbhCwT3It2HtEFL/TW+lxfGPFEmp0kGLzWsy 4t7pvOi+dRR0eW/xc7NpIRF/DRaFRyxMZmatc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=X7/o3geyfeDmNN7lSoCCNDyPKHO1y9TJu/sj+lpILidwGZ0JuXaIAEiD2I+ZG7vv9d a1fexyx2VlBcJSi/6O41Nw+FniENKrAxULFWbHHYHIqtjLC8EQFj2Flg33xx3nVxyakA qvEfUQvfzX6Zmww9rCcl8gYb5ib4Az4SXI+Rs= Received: by 10.223.50.193 with SMTP id a1mr2410634fag.34.1270237811856; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:50:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (p5DCC0B53.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.204.11.83]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 13sm6570392fxm.10.2010.04.02.12.50.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:50:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 21:50:09 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.33r4; KDE/4.4.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <20100401174711.GA5120@solfire> <201004022040.54819.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <20100402203415.52093001@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100402203415.52093001@digimed.co.uk> 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-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201004022150.10087.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 782836a9-298e-4ae3-87f2-880d722e9e23 X-Archives-Hash: 40e44c79e0a539a3a236080fabce1210 On Freitag 02 April 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:40:54 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > 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. > > > > no need to power down - and you can add and remove drives. Read man > > mdadm. > > Assuming your controller supports hotplugging, assuming you have a drive > available to plug in, assuming you are able to physically add a drive. sata can hotplug. all ahci controlers can hotplug and all sata drives can hotplug. If you insist on technology straight from the stone ages that is your problem.