Re: LVM mirror or RAID1?

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On Dec 2, 2014 4:03 AM, "MegaBrutal" <megabrutal@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Could you please advise which is better? Creating mirrored logical
> volumes or raid1 logical volumes?
> The purpose of these 2 methods seem rather similar, so I'm curious
> what is the difference.
> I'd like to know the pros and contras of both methods. I'm also
> interested to hear about your personal experiences.
>
     I usually build raid volumes and then LVM on the top of that. IMHO LVM is abstracting the physical storage: you can group a bunch of raid volumes into a single volume group. So they kinda complement each other.

I've never done mirrored lvs so I can't vouch for that.

>
> Regards,
> MegaBrutal
>
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