LVM problem <SOLVED>

[Robin Laing]

Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 13:54, Robin Laing wrote:
> 
> 
>>200Gb just isn't enough.  I just put in 300 gb and going to add teh 
>>old 100G to the LVG to allow for videos and music and data files to be 
>>stored.
>>
>>I was unsure about LVG as I could just mount drives in subdirectories. 
>>  It was the fact that LVG would allow this to be done transparently 
>>is the selling point to me.
>>
>>I have calculated that I would need about 1TB to do what I want.  I am 
>>looking at RAID arrays.
> 
> 
> Just note that the more drives you add to a logical volume the more
> likely it is that that volume will have a failure.  If the data is
> critical make sure you have backups or that you are using raid.
> 
> I currently have one file system that is 1TB is size running across four
> drives.
> 
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02        1018G  483G  536G  48% /video
> 
> I accept the fact that if one of the drives fail I will lose data.
> 
This makes an interesting point.

I am using mirrored drives now as volumes.  md0 and md1.  If one drive 
fails, I wonder how this will be handled.

This is so much fun.

-- 
Robin Laing