From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 16:24:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150428162448.160e1683@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <553FA0DD.1090101@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:01:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> When you use only LVM for this and nothing else, you have a high risk of
> losing everything if one disk fails. Why? Because LVM decides itself
> which extent it will put data on. Maybe a whole file is on one disk,
> maybe it's spread across two, because the software is designed so that
> you don't have to be concerned with that. The only thing that LVM does
> is expand your storage space as a single volume and make it easier to
> shuffle things around without having to backup/repartition/restore.
An alternative is to create a new volume group on the new disk and mounts
PVs at various points in your home directory. That way you get the extra
space and much of the flexibility without the risk of a failure on a
single drive taking out data on both. However, if you are concerned about
data loss, you should be using RAID t a minimum, preferably with an error
detecting filesystem.
> Personally, I like the ZFS approach and do it all in software, catching
> errors that RAID misses.
The same is also possible with BTRFS, including built in RAID. RAID5 in
btrfs is expermiental, but its RAID1 is like RAID5 in some ways, such as
giving the capacity of n-1 disks and tolerating a single disk failure.
--
Neil Bothwick
PC DOS Error #04: Out of disk space. Delete Windows? (Y)es (H)ell yes!
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-28 8:39 [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions Dale
2015-04-28 14:49 ` Francisco Ares
2015-04-28 15:01 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-04-28 15:24 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2015-04-28 17:38 ` Rich Freeman
2015-04-28 18:11 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-28 18:31 ` Rich Freeman
2015-04-28 18:41 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-28 22:02 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2015-04-29 1:24 ` Rich Freeman
2015-04-29 6:20 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-04-29 14:31 ` Grant Edwards
2015-04-29 6:13 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2015-04-29 7:52 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-04 7:39 ` Dale
2015-05-04 7:46 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-04 8:13 ` Mick
2015-05-04 8:26 ` Dale
2015-05-04 8:23 ` Dale
2015-05-04 10:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-04 10:40 ` Dale
2015-05-04 11:26 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-09 10:56 ` Dale
2015-05-09 12:59 ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-09 14:46 ` Todd Goodman
2015-05-09 18:16 ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-04 11:35 ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-04 18:42 ` Nuno Magalhães
2015-05-05 6:41 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-05-05 10:56 ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-05 11:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-05 12:05 ` Mick
2015-05-05 12:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-05 12:39 ` Mick
2015-05-05 12:53 ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-05 21:50 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-05 22:21 ` Bill Kenworthy
2015-05-05 22:33 ` Bill Kenworthy
2015-05-04 10:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-28 15:02 ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-04 7:23 ` Dale
2015-05-05 3:01 ` Walter Dnes
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2018-11-09 1:31 ` Jack
2018-11-09 1:43 ` Dale
2018-11-09 2:04 ` Andrew Lowe
2018-11-09 2:07 ` Bill Kenworthy
2018-11-09 8:39 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-11-09 2:29 ` Rich Freeman
2018-11-09 8:17 ` Bill Kenworthy
2018-11-09 13:25 ` Rich Freeman
2018-11-09 9:02 ` J. Roeleveld
2018-11-11 0:45 ` Dale
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2015-04-27 7:41 Dale
2015-04-28 18:25 ` Daniel Frey
2015-04-28 21:23 ` Dale
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