[linux-lvm] LVM strategy: Is One VG Safe?
Patrick Boutilier
boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca
Mon Dec 20 16:49:05 UTC 2004
Maurice Volaski wrote:
> I plan to start with a hardware RAID (level 5) of one physical volume
> and one volume group. Then create several logical volumes from it and
> grow them each as they are needed pulling space from what's not used in
> the volume group until all the space in the group eventually utilized.
>
> Is it reasonable to believe that such an arrangement is stable enough
> that if anything were to ever go wrong a with an individual logical
> volume that it wouldn't impact the other logical volumes in that same
> volume group or the volume group itself?
We have used the above setup for years (one VG/many LV on top of
hardware RAID 5). It is stable for us.
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