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

Richard Harding rick at ricksweb.info
Mon Sep 5 19:24:17 EDT 2005


On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 19:10 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 
> > Drives are cheap these days, even good ones.  Just buy more capacity 
> > than you expect to need and leave some free space in the LVM system.
> 
> You can always add another mirrored pair of drives.  Just add it as a
> another pv and add that pv to the vg;  lvm will take care of the fact
> that the OS thinks these are two separate devices.

This is what I am thinking I'll end up planning on. If I end up filling
the initial raid 5 then I could try to setup some other sort of array
and then use LVM to move over something like /home or /var and get more
space that way. 

Rick



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