On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Brad DerManouelian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Nov 23, 2008, at 9:14 PM, vamythguy wrote:<br>
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> Ok. Let me start with - I don't get LVM + RAID. The idea of being<br>
> able to throw differently sized disks in one side and having a<br>
> failure resistant dynamically extendable disk solution come-out the<br>
> other is great, but I don't get LVM + RAID. Specifically, how it<br>
> works. Why both?<br>
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</div>Read more for your answer.<br>
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> Also, I love the idea of not being constained by the number of slots<br>
> in a box, so the extent to which that can be abstracted across a<br>
> protocol like iSCSI or AoE or eSATA would be great - especially<br>
> since performance is only marginally important to me. So, how<br>
> would.does something like this work/get built?<br>
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</div>There's your answer to the question above and the explanation above<br>
answers the question here. That was easy.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Great! All the pieces are in the box - so, how do you put them together? So I get how LVM let's me keep throwing disks at it, but how do I get fault-resistance? RAID, right? But I don't think RAID likes new disks, does it? So, maybe starting with how to get that to work.<br>