[linux-lvm] Problems and questions with LVM on a large raid system.

[Kevin P. Fleming]

jon+lvm at silicide.dk wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:52:17AM -0800, Petro wrote:
> 
>>I've got a couple of brand new boxes I'm trying to get LVM set up
>>properly on. 
>>
>>These machines have 6 200GiB drives attached to a 3ware controller card,
>>for a total of 1,200,000,000,000 bytes of storage. 
> 
> 
> later down you write you need speed. In that case i would suggest
> ditching the hardware raid, and use pure software raid, it is faster.
> I dont mind 3ware, i have dome myself, but my benchmarking revealed
> that software was faster.
> 

True, but I'd sure hate to wait for a software array rebuild when the system 
crashes... I've only got a pair of 160G drives but I still hate waiting when the 
kernel has a problem. If your system is very, very stable this might not be an 
issue.