On Mon, 2006-04-03 14:41:18 +0100, Jim Ford <jaford@watford53.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > >Full ACK. The most scary cases are those where people expect to get > > > >high-availability by LVM'ing some IDE disks together. > > > >Hey, LVM on MD really is a nice thing, even dm-crypt ontop, works > >flawlessly :) > What, you mean Mini Disk - the little magneto optical disks used for > personal audio players? What's the advantage in that, aren't they only > about a 1 gig storage? No, Linux' MultiDisk stuff was ment (SoftRAID). You take a bunch of HDDs, put it to different controllers and configure those *carefully* after *thinking* to show up as a RAID device. Then you can use LVM (again, after careful thinking) with these. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O für einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak! O O O ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA));
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