[BozemanLUG] Questions on RAID & LVM

[Rusty Conover]

On Sep 13, 2010, at 6:48 PM, Scott Dowdle wrote:

> 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. :)
> 

Being about 2200 miles away from my hardware on average, I kind of stick with what has worked and guaranteed is to work in the future with the minimum amount of hands-on finagling.

Rusty
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