[plug] tip: cool mount + kernel2.4 trick

[Craig Ringer]

Simon Scott wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 June 2002 2:46 am, Craig Ringer wrote:
> 
>>Hi all
>>For those not in the know (me 'till 5 mins ago) thought I'd mention a
>>cool trick I just ran into.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> How does LVM fair in this scenario? Anyone here played with it?

Nope. I've always been suspicious of software RAID and disk spanning 
stuff, I can't bring myself to trust it. OTOH HW RAID has its issues too 
(your out-of-production RAID controller dies ... whoops) so I guess its 
a silly way of doing things. Sw or Hw Raid0 is ok of course but more 
than a little inefficient. I'd always like to be able to plug one of a 
pair of failed disks into any machine and recover the data on that disk 
though. Using LVM, Raid1, etc means that the failure of one of a set of 
disks looses you all data on all disks yes? I'm not a fan of those odds.

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