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Re: LVM RAID vs LVM over MD

From Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: LVM RAID vs LVM over MD
Date 2016-12-05 20:40 +0100
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On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 01:14:14PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> I'd like to make sure I'm taking away the right thing from this
> conversation.
> It seems we have high-level recommendations _not_ to use LVM RAID1.
> Not just over MD, simply don't use it at all. Do I get that right?
> 

Yes.

If you want RAID1, use mdadm (and use RAID10 with 2 devices).

If you want LVM, use LVM.

If you want LVM on top of RAID, use LVM on top of mdadm, but consider
whether you might actually want ZFS instead.

-dsr-

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LVM RAID vs LVM over MD kjonca@poczta.onet.pl (Kamil Jońca) - 2016-12-03 20:10 +0100
  Re: LVM RAID vs LVM over MD Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2016-12-03 22:50 +0100
    Re: LVM RAID vs LVM over MD kjonca@poczta.onet.pl (Kamil Jońca) - 2016-12-04 08:20 +0100
  Re: LVM RAID vs LVM over MD Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2016-12-03 23:20 +0100
  Re: LVM RAID vs LVM over MD Roman Tsisyk <roman@tsisyk.com> - 2016-12-04 07:40 +0100
  Re: LVM RAID vs LVM over MD Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-12-05 11:30 +0100
    Re: LVM RAID vs LVM over MD Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 20:20 +0100
      Re: LVM RAID vs LVM over MD Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-12-05 20:40 +0100
        Re: LVM RAID vs LVM over MD Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2016-12-05 21:00 +0100
          Re: LVM RAID vs LVM over MD Roman Tsisyk <roman@tsisyk.com> - 2016-12-05 21:10 +0100
            Re: LVM RAID vs LVM over MD Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2016-12-05 21:40 +0100
      Re: LVM RAID vs LVM over MD Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2016-12-05 20:50 +0100
      Re: LVM RAID vs LVM over MD Igor Cicimov <icicimov@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 01:00 +0100
        Re: LVM RAID vs LVM over MD Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-12-12 12:30 +0100
          Re: LVM RAID vs LVM over MD Igor Cicimov <icicimov@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 09:50 +0100

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