On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:19:38AM -0500, Tim McDonough wrote: > Phillipus Gunawan wrote: > >> My friend told me about Home Server, and when I have a read about it, wow >> The only feature that interest me is "Drive Extender" >> >> (taken from Windows Home Server Technical Brief - Drive Extender.docx) >> ".... >> As you add more hard >> drives to your home server, they are treated as a single large pool of >> available storage space. You no longer need to deal with drive letters (such >> as >> E:, F:, and G: ) because you can add more hard drives." >> Been trying to googling with no answer... >> >> Any links/suggestions/direction/etc would be much appreciated >> And have a good Easter > > It seems like you would get this functionality using a Debian (or any > Linux) box and LVM -- Linux Volume Manager. > > Of course, you'd probably want to reboot occasionally to mimic the full > Windows experience when you update software, etc. ;-)
but the marketing brief seems to suggest that if you lose a drive you
only lose the files that were on there.
with lvm you would lose any lv that has blocks on that drive
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