[linux-lvm] software raid or lvm?

Theo Van Dinter felicity at kluge.net
Mon Jun 7 15:38:09 UTC 2004


On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:25:57PM +0200, philip wrote:
> like to install suse91, which doesn't support siimage chipset, so i've to 
> use software raid or lvm.
> what would be better/faster?

Well, what are you trying to do?  If you want redundancy, go with RAID.
If you want volume management, go with LVM.  I'd say you should do both
(RAID the disks then use LVM on top), but without more data there is no
answer for "better/faster".

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