RE: raid-0 with mdadm vs lvm striping

If you run LVM on top of raid you can have both. :-) All my servers
run this config and it makes things easy to move around as needed, in
fact a couple of times it saved my data (and my bacon). And with newer
versions of mdadm, you can create some interesting raid configs that
LVM has no chance of creating.

So why striping? Aside from faster speeds, raid-0 is anything but redundant.
--
Drew

I need the speed, pure and simple.  It's going to be used as a scratch volume.  I already have a mirrored raid array with mdadm for my "real" data and backups, but I need something faster just to store temporary files on.

--andrew