[TriLUG] LVS and RAID

[Jason Tower]

LVM would be a great topic for a trilug meeting/class, wink wink nudge nudge

On Thursday 09 January 2003 09:02, Ryan Leathers wrote:
> Yes sir, I began using LVM on Linux about 5 months ago on some Dell "big
> iron" SMP hardware RAID systems running Redhat 7.3
> Most of these systems have a mirror set for the OS and RAID 5 for the
> applications.
>
> Since I come from an HP-UX background I had sorely missed the benefits
> of LVM in Linux.  After catching an article about improved stability in
> LVM for Linux I decided to try it out on a Redhat 7.3 development box.
> It compiled, configured, and performed on this test system without a
> hitch.  I added physical drives, removed drives from a RAID set and
> placed them in another, you name it I tried it.  LVM allowed me to grow
> and shrink volumes without concern for the hardware RAID.  After a few
> weeks I was so pleased with the results I moved 4 production servers to
> LVM.  Again, everything went flawlessly.  When I set up my first Redhat
> 8.0 server, much to my delight, I found that LVM was built in.  I have
> been running 3 Redhat 8.0 servers and 4 Redhat 7.3 servers, all with
> large hardware RAIDS, for a few months now and couldn't be more pleased
> with the results.
>
> Ryan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sinner from the Prairy [mailto:sinner at escomposlinux.org]
> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 8:09 AM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: [TriLUG] LVS and RAID
>
> 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