[NTLUG:Discuss] LVM Span and data loss

[Jay Urish]

Jay Urish wrote:

> Raid 0 is mirroring...
> 
> What you need to do is find a raid controller with built in BIOPS like 

Fat fingered that one... I meant BIOS

> 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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