Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3996 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Danny Sauer wrote:
> Michael wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] Why logical volume?' on Wed, Sep 15 at 16:01:
>
> > On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:18:46 -0600, you wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Not an opinion, fact. Now if you config'ed it that way on purpose, say
> > > you needed max performance and usable size then fine. But you made it
> > > seem like a single disk failure would take down LVM in general and that
> > > is just not the case if config'ed for high availability.
> >
> > Well, just as soon as the default configuration is for something
> > besides what it is, I'll agree with you.  In the meantime, however,
> > I'll keep saying that you need to be careful.
> >
> > And incidentally, unless you own a sheet metal shop or have a few
> > thousand to waste, there simply isn't a good way to get more than
> > about 2TB into a chassis, so how exactly were you figuring on setting
> > up a RAID?
>
>
> Network block devices? :)
>
> --Danny, pretty sure that'd kill your reliability...

Actually, one good way, is iSCSI, which uses IP to connect storage. 
Your drives could be anywhere that's reachable with IP.