[KLUG Members] any experience with Debian Sarge & Dell 39160 SCSI controller?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> The second concern is that it seems if things do go bad it's a lot
> harder to recover because most rescue cds or Live CDs don't support
> mounting up an LVM volume to recover any data. 

This isn't true.  Almost every recovery CD supports LVM,  and certainly
your distributions install disk in rescue mode will (or else switch
distributions - because that is the only rescue disk you should use -
same kernel tree and driver set, same LVM version, same MD version [if
used], etc...)

A worst case scenario with LVM is that you have to do a "pvscan;
vgchange -ay" manually.  No big deal.  And another advantage of LVM is
that the partitions are all signed and you can move that RAID array
right over to another machine and still pvscan it and mount the logical
volumes.
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