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...