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Mark Hahn wrote:
| EVMS is afflicted by featuritis, IMO, compared to LVM. but why do you | think you need it? volume managers are for people who want to divide | their storage into little chunks, and then experience the bofhish grandeur | of requiring the lusers to beg for more space.
There is no need for any kind of LVM unless you start with a small set of HDs and may need to extend it later without moving data around on partitions etc. for bofhish behavior there is quota ;)
|> * I'm probably failing to consider the five most important factors... | | | the only really important factor is that disks should be 3+ year warrantee. | hw raid is fine if you like that kind of thing, and want the security of | paying more for slower performance, but the privilege of waiting on hold | at a telephone support number.
it always depends WHAT kind of HW raid you are talking about. The thing you get in HP/Compaq DL boxes or the "HW raid" you get with promise, etc low level controllers. Of course if you want to get raid in that area software raid is more easy and cheap and faster, but I think in the upper area hardware raid has some other advantages, eg easy boot from raid 5, transparency to the OS layer (no 5 mds because you want partitions, no patches because you want to make md partitions, etc). 100% sure and easy hotswap ...
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