Linked Questions
25 questions linked to/from LVM dangers and caveats
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Safe filesystem for Email homedir storage? XFS? JFS? Btrfs? Reiser4?
i'm building an email system and considering some filesystem that support online-resize, safe when power-outage, and does not restrict number of files per directory(or at least can hold some millions ...
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LVM on software RAID
Is there any overhead for LVM over RAID, and if yes, how much it impacts the performance?
Also, how reliable such setup is?
Regards.
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ZFS/Btrfs/LVM2-like storage with advanced features on Linux? [closed]
I have 3 identical internal 7200 RPM SATA hard disk drives on a Linux machine. I'm looking for a storage set-up that will give me all of this:
Different data sets (filesystems or subtrees) can have ...
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ext4 fs breaking after power outages
I am experiencing quite a typical but strange problem: the hdd is going bust after power cuts on my server. I can feel it huge work done by fsck on startup after the crash, and then my subversion ...
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LVM-on-RAID vs RAID10 vs RAID6
In the spirit of the question LVM mirroring VS RAID1 I thought I'd push a bit further.
Suppose I have 4 identical hard drives (e.g. 1TB) that I want in a RAID setup for a backup/media server. LVM ...
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Is it a good practice to put all partitions into LVM? [closed]
I would like to know what is the best practice regarding the partitioning policy, especially when it comes to Logical Volume Manager.
Is it better to put the entire partitioning into LVM or use it ...
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Damaged XenServer Storage LVM partition table [closed]
I have a homeserver running under XenServer control with 3x1TB discs inside, one for XenServer and two mirrored(using Intel's fakeRAID and dmraid) for VMs and a user data(but now I think RAID didn't ...
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Choice of extent size?
Storage system: HP Smart Array P410i. Operating system: RHEL 5.5 x86_64.
I have created a RAID 1+0 logical drive consisting of 12 disks, stripe size 128KB. With this logical drive, I'm about to ...
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XFS on LVM or directly on MD array?
I have a RAID6 array consisting of 10x2TB drives that I will be using as a NAS device. The server enclosure has 6 additional bays that I may use for future expansion. The storage will all be 500G-1T ...
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LVM resize /home and /
Here are my partitions:
[awake@desktop ~]$ sudo df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 36G 2.5G 33G 8% /
udev 495M 0 495M 0% /...