[vox-tech] Large File Server - File System?

[Ted Deppner]

Cheap insurance against the need to change things.  The only overhead
expense that would matter (because CPU and disk won't) would be your
time, differing between learning and using LVM versus having to change
something the hard way later on.

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Alex Mandel<tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
> I think I'm missing why LVM would be good in this situation, it seems
> like extra overhead. RAID 6 in this case offers hot swapping of up to 2
> failing drives at the same time, so I don't plan to do any mirroring
> beyond what the RAID config offers. As for the need to change
> partitions, aside from the OS which might have it's own drives, the rest
> of the drives are all 1 partition of 8 TB.