[linux-lvm] LVM over RAID, or plain disks? A:"Yes" = best of both worlds?

Keld Jørn Simonsen keld at keldix.com
Mon Nov 29 15:29:16 UTC 2010


On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 06:01:11PM +0700, hansbkk at gmail.com wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 1:34 AM, Leslie Rhorer <lrhorer at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> >> - I am not at this point overly concerned about performance issues -
> >> reliability/redundancy and ease of recovery are my main priorities.
> >
> >        In that case, I'm not sure about your desire for the additional
> > complexity.  Someone else suggested RAID6, which from an operational
> > standpoint is much simpler.  The main reason, it seems to me, for the more
> > complex topologies would be enhancing perfromance.
> 
> I can see how RAID6 is simpler than RAID10, but compared to RAID1?

Hmm, does not compute by me. RAID1 and RAID10 are the same in complexity,
RAID10 is just a modern RAID1, and should actually have been called
RAID1.

best regards
keld




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