On Thursday 22 March 2007 09:36am, Tim Milstead wrote: > I am a complete noob to lvm. > I have 9 partitions on 9 (190GB) disks, one of which (according to smart > tools) is failing - hde. I'm curious, it sounds like you are not using RAID, but instead have 9 PVs in your LVM setup. If one hard drive will fail in 5,000 hours of use, then 1 in 10 will fail in 500 hours of use, or so the thinking goes. With 9 drives, I'm not surprised that you are experiencing one failing. If you're not using RAID, might I suggest that you do? Those 9 disks would make a nice RAID5 or RAID6 array, and LVM works beautifully on top of software RAID, hardware RAID or any combination of both. LVM does not provide redundancy (yes, I know it can do mirroring, but I wouldn't suggest that), it's about easily managing lots of storage space. RAID is about reliability/redundancy. Use the right tool for the right job, and use both tools together to get all the best benefits of both. -- Lamont Peterson <peregrine@OpenBrainstem.net> Founder [ http://blog.OpenBrainstem.net/peregrine/ ] GPG Key fingerprint: 0E35 93C5 4249 49F0 EC7B 4DDD BE46 4732 6460 CCB5 ___ ____ _ _ / _ \ _ __ ___ _ __ | __ ) _ __ __ _(_)_ __ ___| |_ ___ _ __ ___ | | | | '_ \ / _ \ '_ \| _ \| '__/ _` | | '_ \/ __| __/ _ \ '_ ` _ \ | |_| | |_) | __/ | | | |_) | | | (_| | | | | \__ \ || __/ | | | | | \___/| .__/ \___|_| |_|____/|_| \__,_|_|_| |_|___/\__\___|_| |_| |_| |_| Intelligent Open Source Software Engineering [ http://www.OpenBrainstem.net/ ]
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