It will be used as storage for all my media (audio, videos, apps, etc), oh and a folder for backups of other computers; sounds like in my situation lvm wouldn't provide much benefit. Cheers Rich On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Steven Haigh <netwiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/01/2011 1:06 AM, Richard Grundy wrote: >> >> I'm building a new RAID5 array (of 5 1.5 TB drives) with mdadm and >> would like to know the benefits of creating an LVM on top of this are >> instead of just creating the filesystem on the md directly. I've never >> had a problem growing the array and then resizing the filesystem >> before and wondered if in this situation the only gain would be lvm >> snapshot stuff? I'm planning to use ext4 for this array, if that makes >> any difference. > > I used lvm over RAID5 on my latest server. It runs the Xen Hypervisor to do > virtualisation. It was the first project that I have *ever* used lvm on. I > have to say, I'm quite impressed. I have a volume group that takes up the > entire RAID5, then split that into logical volumes for each VM. > > I guess the bottom line here is what you are using it for. If its one > massive file dumping ground, then lvm probably won't get you any extra > features. If you plan to have more things later on than a single filesystem, > then it might be an advantage to put lvm on there now. > > -- > Steven Haigh > > Email: netwiz@xxxxxxxxx > Web: http://www.crc.id.au > Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 > Fax: (03) 8338 0299 > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
