[linux-lvm] Newbie question

[Heinz J. Mauelshagen]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:53:58AM -0300, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Hi, I'm new in LVM (I'm so new that I'm not even using it :) and I have a
> question:
> 
> I want to know if the stiper mode, the performance gain is somparable to Software
> RAID 0.

In theory they should be pretty similar :-)

But people reported differences which are probably caused by their particular
hardware setup.

In order to answer the question for your particular configuration, you should
test both ;-)

> Another question is the boot stuff, what is better? compile LVM as a module
> and use inird or compile the kernel with built-in LVM support?

It doesn't make a difference if you go for the module or the build in driver,
you need to have an initrd today anyway to activate your VGs at boot time.

We are working on boot time recognition of VGs in the driver which will vanish
the initrd. That will be in a post 1.0 version of the Linux LVM.

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --


> Thanks for your help...
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