On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 03:29, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > Do you think using LVM is a reliable method of sharing home directories? > I have been reading the lists, and I notice that in a lot of cases, if > one drive dies, you usually lose a lot of information. That's why you should really only use it on top of redundant storage like RAID 1 or RAID 5, or in situations where you can afford the risk of data loss (scratch volumes, hot archives, etc). I guess that by its self, LVM could be seen as having many of the same issues as RAID-0 in terms of data safety - but you're more likely to be able to do partial recovery with LVM. I run LVM on a RAID 1 array and a large RAID 5 array, and while I've had disk failures, I've never suffered any data loss because the layer below LVM is properly redundant. Craig Ringer _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
