On 6/22/07, Clayton
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