Am Mittwoch, 12. April 2006 11:29 schrieb ext Ow Mun Heng: > Just wanted to clarify something. > > Say I have a bunch of disks, I can go either using JBOD, and mount each > disk eg: > /mnt/disk1 /mnt/disk2 /mnt/disk3 > and use them as is. If one crash, I still retain data on the other 2. > > If I use LVM, for ease of configuration and to provide me with just > one /BIG-storage-volume, if I get a curruption of if one of the disks > fail, does the other 2 retain it's data? > > My guess is NO and I'm basically screwed if the data is important.
This is correct. Did you think about:
1) Using sw raid 5 (would loose the capacity of 1 disk, but _all_ data would
be save)
2) mkdir /BIG-storage-volume and populate it with symlinks
into /mnt/disk[123]
3) Backups
Bye...
Dirk
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