On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 09:07 -0700, Larry Dickson wrote: > Perhaps I'm being unfair, but making valuable stuff depend on md raid1 > scares me. We've had trouble when an event happens (i.e. primary goes > bad) and have had to do stuff by hand. I thought raid 1 handled that kind of situation automatically. Am I under a mistaken impression, or is it just that other things can go wrong easily? I know raid 1 and 5 are both vulnerable until the redundancy is reconstructed. > For real peace of mind, I would think of a backup strategy involving > another system; snapshot is nice for that. Perhaps your unused big > disk could go on that system. Just a practical note. It won't be unused for long, and since some stuff to backup goes there, I think I need to put the on-disk backup somewhere else. Spreading things out across disks should also speed up the backup, which is sometimes very slow. Ross _______________________________________________ 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/
