[linux-lvm] Problems and questions with LVM on a large raid system.

jon+lvm at silicide.dk jon+lvm at silicide.dk
Wed Mar 12 16:50:01 UTC 2003


On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 03:23:10PM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> jon+lvm at silicide.dk wrote:

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> >later down you write you need speed. In that case i would suggest
> >ditching the hardware raid, and use pure software raid, it is faster.
> >I dont mind 3ware, i have dome myself, but my benchmarking revealed
> >that software was faster.
> >
> 
> True, but I'd sure hate to wait for a software array rebuild when the 
> system crashes... I've only got a pair of 160G drives but I still hate 
> waiting when the kernel has a problem. If your system is very, very stable 
> this might not be an issue.

you're talking about raid0. You dont rebuild raid0. Not in hardware, not
in software.



JonB




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