"Henry, Andrew" <andrew.henry@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> If you run LVM on top of raid you can have both. :-) All my servers
>> run this config and it makes things easy to move around as needed, in
>> fact a couple of times it saved my data (and my bacon). And with newer
>> versions of mdadm, you can create some interesting raid configs that
>> LVM has no chance of creating.
>>
>> So why striping? Aside from faster speeds, raid-0 is anything but redundant.
>> --
>> Drew
>
> I need the speed, pure and simple. It's going to be used as a scratch volume. I already have a mirrored raid array with mdadm for my "real" data and backups, but I need something faster just to store temporary files on.
>
> --andrew
But why raid0 instead of striped lvm? Does that make a difference in
speed?
MfG
Goswin
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