Re: [linux-lvm] LVM strategy: Is One VG Safe?

[Patrick Boutilier <boutilpj ednet ns ca>]

Maurice Volaski wrote:
> I plan to start with a hardware RAID (level 5) of one physical volume 
> and one volume group. Then create several logical volumes from it and 
> grow them each as they are needed pulling space from what's not used in 
> the volume group until all the space in the group eventually utilized.
>
> Is it reasonable to believe that such an arrangement is stable enough 
> that if anything were to ever go wrong a with an individual logical 
> volume that it wouldn't impact the other logical volumes in that same 
> volume group or the volume group itself?

We have used the above setup for years (one VG/many LV on top of 
hardware RAID 5). It is stable for us.