[TriLUG] LVM and RAID

[Jon Carnes]

I've been using Logical Volume Management on Linux for about a year with
no problems.  Seems to work fine for both RedHat and Mandrake.

Here is an excellent tutorial on LVM:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lvm/

Good Luck - Jon Carnes

On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 08:09, Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was reading an article on SysAdmin Magazine "Review of Current File Systems 
> and Volume Managers" http://www.samag.com/documents/s=7789/sam0302h/0302h.htm 
> .
> 
> I'm about to implement some Linux systems with RAID 1 (0+1 maybe?). The 
> article got me into thinking:
> 
> What about using LVM?
> 
> I used LVM on AIX, back on the IBM days, and it was a nifty thing... when you 
> learnt how to use it. LVM let me add more partitions to a live filesystem 
> with just a few keystrokes. I liked it a lot.
> 
> And I wondered, how LVM works on Linux today? Is it up for production status? 
> Has anyone combined it with RAID?
> 
> Thank you in advance for your comments, insights, experiences and pointers to 
> fine manuals.
> 
> 
> 
> Salut,
> Sinner
> -- 
> http://www.ibiblio.org/sinner/     Linux User # 89976
> Running on Mandrake Linux 9.0 - Kernel  2.4.19smp  Linux Machine # 38068
> 
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