[BozemanLUG] Questions on RAID & LVM

[Scott Dowdle]

Rusty,

----- Original Message -----
> I concur with the opinion LVM isn't worth the effort, besides, I don't
> know of a simpler way repartition after a failed drive then: "sfdisk
> -d /dev/sdb | sfdisk /dev/sda"
> 
> I'm of the opinion software raid is always better then hardware raid
> when you have a non-homogenous hardware environment. If you go with
> software you can put a raid set in any device and you're going to be
> able to make it work, not so if you don't have the same hardware raid
> controller say Adaptec versus 3ware. In the times of crisis, I prefer
> to be able to access my data from anywhere on any hardware.

So what you are saying is that you haven't used them yet and don't know how?  That's what I'm getting. :)

TYL,
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