Jani, et al -- ...and then Jani Partanen said... % Hi David, % % Nice to see that there is others who like to take things extreme and live on % razor edge. ;) Heh. And here I didn't know I was doing any such thing ... My whole goal was to minimize rebuild time for anything less than a full disk and to stage rebuilds for a full-disk failure. If these were all 100M or 1T disks then we wouldn't be worrying about rebuild time :-/ % % I had different side disks, so I made raid5 so that I first joined example % 1TB and 2TB together with md linear so I could add that as member to other % 3TB raid5 pool. The good news here is that I don't mix disk sizes; all of these are not only the same size but, for the foreseeable future, the exact same model. % ... % Anyway, go LVM if you are planning to slice and dice disks like before. With % LVM later on if you add space, it will be much more simple task and LVM % automaticly works like linear but offers much other benefits. I'll definitely read up on it and see where I might play with learning. % LVM is very much worth to learn. Start up virtual machine and assign % multiple small vdisks to it and you have enviroment where it's safe to play % around with md and lvm. [snip] Funny you should mention that ... Getting into VMs has been on my list for quite a while *sigh* :-)/2 I haven't even had the time and opportunity to go and read a primer to boot a "Hello, world" VM. Thanks again & HANN :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt
