Are you going to create 1 big logical volume?

If so, I see no need.
But if you will be creating more than 1 logical volume, then go for it.  It
would be less work to maintain 1 array, instead of many.

Guy

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org
[mailto:linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of peter.greis@ubs.com
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 3:04 AM
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: To LVM, or not LVM ?

Greetings All,

I have a SuSE 9.1 server which I am getting ready to stuff 4 SATA drives
into for extra storage (SIL controller onboard). Using 300GB disks with
RAID5, this should give me 900GB of usable space, yes ? Anyway, I appeal to
the list - should I build the array with LVM or not ? Any disadvantages ?

regards,

-Peter
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