[clue-tech] RAID-0 & LVM

[mike havlicek]

--- mike havlicek <mhavlicek1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> RAID-0 and LVM
> 
> Does one or the other compromise the advantages of
> either?
> 
> I am rebuilding a box that went haywire. I have
> salvaged critical data on tape. Now I am thinking
> about rebuilding it. Originally it was a Fedora Core
> 4
> using software RAID-1. The funny thing was that it
> seems to be filesystem curruption or more likely a
> particular file that I haven't tracked down, that
> started causing problems rather than disk failure...
> ie the problems were mirrored.
> 
> Anywho, I am toying with two possible rebuild
> scenarios.
> 
> 1)Build the system on one disk using LVM and later
> allocate the second disk thru the LVM scheme of
> things.
> 
> 2) At install RAID-0 the two disks and LVM over
> them.
> 
> I like the idea of IO performance offerred with
> RAID-0, but wonder if that might become moot when
> coating it with LVM (speaking of scenario 2) ...
> hmm....
> 
> -Mike
> 
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Jumping back a step ... since /boot cannot live on an
LVM partition -> That makes the drivespace
unequal...hmm

-Mike


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