[opensuse] Spanning hard drives (equiv to MS dynamic volumes)... ??
Is there a Linux equivalent to MSs Dynamic Volumes? I have a situation where it would be very convenient if I could spread a single mount point over more than one hard drive.... is this possible in Linux? Maybe with RAID? I've tried poking Google for it, but I didn't get much back (maybe searching the wrong words?). C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 6/22/07, Clayton <smaug42@gmail.com> wrote:
Is there a Linux equivalent to MSs Dynamic Volumes? I have a situation where it would be very convenient if I could spread a single mount point over more than one hard drive.... is this possible in Linux? Maybe with RAID? I've tried poking Google for it, but I didn't get much back (maybe searching the wrong words?).
iirc, Dynamic Volumes is a combination of Logical Volume Management and Raid. For Raid of various levels use mdraid in most cases. For Logical Volume Management most people use LVM2. Alternatively you can use EVMS, but I think that has a smaller user base and I don't know if it is included in the 10.2 distro or not. (too lazy to look.) If you are going to use both (a very good idea), then build your raid volumes out of the physical drives. Then build your LVM setup on top of the raid volumes. By doing that, raid gives you fault tolerance / performance gain and LVM gives you the management features and snapshots. HTH Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Is there a Linux equivalent to MSs Dynamic Volumes? I have a situation where it would be very convenient if I could spread a single mount point over more than one hard drive.... is this possible in Linux? Maybe with RAID? I've tried poking Google for it, but I didn't get much back (maybe searching the wrong words?).
You can do this with a raid card with linux. Raid 5 lets you have 2 or more hard drivers combined as one large drive. I have done this with 3ware raid cards, they are supported with suse linux out of the box. Jack Malone Network admin Horizon Industries -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Is there a Linux equivalent to MSs Dynamic Volumes? I have a situation where it would be very convenient if I could spread a single mount point over more than one hard drive.... is this possible in Linux? Maybe with RAID? I've tried poking Google for it, but I didn't get much back (maybe searching the wrong words?).
You can do this with a raid card with linux. Raid 5 lets you have 2 or more hard drivers combined as one large drive. I have done this with 3ware raid cards, they are supported with suse linux out of the box.
Thanks for the quick replies :-) We have a raid card handy. Time to go experiment (and read up on) with RAID5 and LVM. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-06-22 at 15:46 -0500, Jack Malone wrote:
You can do this with a raid card with linux. Raid 5 lets you have 2 or more hard drivers combined as one large drive.
You can do that in Linux _without_ a raid card, too. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGfElutTMYHG2NR9URArZXAJ46FtTl6jWx2rSoNFer3RJecSafQACfW4LY jc7RZ57DC2C4QtzrHb9wc3U= =zPt/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
The Friday 2007-06-22 at 15:46 -0500, Jack Malone wrote:
You can do this with a raid card with linux. Raid 5 lets you have 2 or more hard drivers combined as one large drive.
You can do that in Linux _without_ a raid card, too. Kewl , guess your talking about software raid or what. Thanks for info. I was just going on what I have done an know :) jack -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Clayton wrote:
Is there a Linux equivalent to MSs Dynamic Volumes? I have a situation where it would be very convenient if I could spread a single mount point over more than one hard drive.... is this possible in Linux? Maybe with RAID? I've tried poking Google for it, but I didn't get much back (maybe searching the wrong words?).
Read up on Logical Volume Management. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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