Raid or LVM

[Mike Noble]

Will McCorkle wrote:
> I have been working on a project and have come to wall. I need something
> that will allow more than 256mg in a file size and still allow me to add
> or remove disks and space at any time. LVM2 only allows 256mg as far as
> the documents say and raid seems to be a one shot option (set up disk(s)
> create file system, done). Does any one have a suggestion for this
> problem?
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> Thank You
> 
> Will McCorkle
> 
> Systems Administrator
> 
> DG Systems
> 
> wmccorkle at dgsystems.com
> 
> 972-581-2119
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> 

LVM2 is a software raid manager.  What you are looking for is a
hardware raid with a volume manager that understands adding/removing
disks, something like Veritas Volume manager.  These solutions are
not cheap.

Mike

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