On Mon, June 20, 2005 9:17, Rainer Krienke said: > > The main difference between a partition and lvm is in my eyes that in lvm > you > usually do not have a single disk where your data is on. Instead you will > have a bunch of disks and possibly your data are spread across all of > these > disks (depending on the setup of your volumegroups). > (snip) Hmm. The thought just crossed my mind that the failure rate of the LVM would be the sum of the failure rates of all the disks in your LVM. _______________________________________________ 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/