Re: Linux RAID or logical Volume support?

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From: Ross Irvine
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 00:00

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Brian O'Connor (boc@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au) wrote:
: 
: Hello,
:       we are considering setting up a large linux(or bsd) box, one
: of the things that is plesent about Digital Unix(and others) is 
: logical volumes, I can concatanate multiple disks into one volume, 
: in addition, RAID would be an advantage. Does linux support RAID, and/or
: LV?

Can't help you on spanning volumes but as for RAID, the only good RAID is 
hardware raid, software raid is unreliable, NOT as a fault tolerant as 
hardware raid, and places extra strain on the CPU etc.

regards.

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