[linux-lvm] Is LVM safe?

[Erik Ohrnberger]

On Mon, June 20, 2005 9:17, Rainer Krienke said:
>
> The main difference between a partition and lvm is in my eyes that in lvm
> you
> usually do not have a single disk where your data is on. Instead you will
> have a bunch of disks and possibly your data are spread across all of
> these
> disks (depending on the setup of your volumegroups).
> (snip)

Hmm.
The thought just crossed my mind that the failure rate of the LVM would be
the sum of the failure rates of all the disks in your LVM.