Hi, >> Maybe I explained myself incorrectly. I'm interested in a hardware >> RAID controller, but would like to use software RAID5, and wondered if >> it was necessary (or beneficial) to use LVM in conjunction with it? > > I am not sure what you mean by this statement. What is the point of > having hardware RAID controllers if you are using software RAID? AFAIK Oops, I meant to say that I'm NOT interested in hardware RAID, but instead want to use software RAID, of which I'm familiar. > As for LVM it sits on top of all the physical volumes(that the kernel > sees, /dev/sdX or in short the whatever you can list with fdisk -l). > So the decision to use LVM is solely dependent on how flexible you > want your disk partitioning setup to be. This would be to have the ability to resize partitions more easily, correct? Is there really any benefit to doing this on a system with a fixed number of disks? Thanks, Alex -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
