On 02/18/10 08:52, John Drescher wrote: >> I have a File Server with 12 hardisks. >> I used LVM technology. >> I wanna ask, what should I do if there are one hardisk crash in File Server? >> What effect by LVM? >> > > I use LVM on every server that I have. I follow one very important > rule. Never use any PV (physical volume) inside the LVM that is not a > RAID 1 or better. If you use individual drives in your LVM you are > just asking for your data to be sent to the bit bucket.. This spanning > usage of LVM is not much better than RAID0.
And just as a reminder ... RAID0 should ONLY ever be used in cases where you want the maximum speed of access to the data, but DON'T CARE IF YOU LOSE IT. (For example, if it's all easily replaceable read-only data.) Because if you lose any one volume from a RAID0, the whole dataset is toast, and any RAID0 of N disks is N times more likely than a single disk to suffer a disk failure. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users