[NTLUG:Discuss] LVM Span and data loss

[Jay Urish]

Raid 0 is mirroring...

What you need to do is find a raid controller with built in BIOPS like 
the one of the 3ware units.. Then snag another 250gb drive and set up raid5


Brett wrote:
> I've been reading through various docs and can't seem to find a
> definative answer on this...
> 
> I have two 250 GB drives... I want span them so I have one big '500GB'
> drive for the samba server to share out to my home network... this
> will be used to store recorded shows and movies... sooooo ... if one
> of the 250 GB drives goes out on me, is all the data on the other
> drive useless like if I was using RAID 0 ? It seems to fill the drive
> up and then move to the next from some of the descriptions... but I
> may be reading it all wrong.
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> Brett
> 
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