On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> I have a client with a handful of USB drives connected to a CentOS
> box. I am charged with binding the USB drives together into a single
> LVM for a cheap storage data pool (10 x 1 TB usb drives = 10 TB cheap
> storage in a single mount point).
I tried doing this for fun once upon a time, using 6 1TB drives. I can
save you a lot of grief by suggesting that you don't think about this any
further. Boy is it slow. And extremely unreliable. And slow. Don't even do
it for backups. Did I say it was slow?
Steve
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Steve Thompson E-mail: smt AT vgersoft DOT com
Voyager Software LLC Web: http://www DOT vgersoft DOT com
39 Smugglers Path VSW Support: support AT vgersoft DOT com
Ithaca, NY 14850
"186,300 miles per second: it's not just a good idea, it's the law"
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
CentOS mailing list
CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
