[NTLUG:Discuss] LVM Span and data loss

[Brett]

I'm actually ditching a Promise SX6000 with 6 120GB drives that ran on
my Redhat box for more than 2 years :)

I'm 'downsizing' all of my systems at home so this will just be in the
living room htpc/mythtv box and I wanted to limit the number of
drives...but adding a 5th drive (3rd for RAID) might be workable!


On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:37:47 -0600, Jay Urish <j at unixwolf.net> wrote:
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> 
> Jay Urish wrote:
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> > Raid 0 is mirroring...
> >
> > What you need to do is find a raid controller with built in BIOPS like
> 
> Fat fingered that one... I meant BIOS
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> > the one of the 3ware units.. Then snag another 250gb drive and set up raid5
> >
> >
> > Brett wrote:
> >
> >> I've been reading through various docs and can't seem to find a
> >> definative answer on this...
> >>
> >> I have two 250 GB drives... I want span them so I have one big '500GB'
> >> drive for the samba server to share out to my home network... this
> >> will be used to store recorded shows and movies... sooooo ... if one
> >> of the 250 GB drives goes out on me, is all the data on the other
> >> drive useless like if I was using RAID 0 ? It seems to fill the drive
> >> up and then move to the next from some of the descriptions... but I
> >> may be reading it all wrong.
> >>
> >> Thanks for any help!
> >>
> >> Brett
> >>
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