Re: [Xen-users] Physical disks + Software Raid + lvm in domU

To:	"Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [Xen-users] Physical disks + Software Raid + lvm in domU
From:	"Alessandro R." <lord2y@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Sat, 1 Mar 2008 15:48:40 +0100
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2008/3/1, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>:

> OK. There is just no reason to do RAID in a Xen virtualized environment
>  unless you're testing out a driver. Let the Dom0 do all that work,
>  because it's already managing the disk IO anyway. LVM to merge together
>  different partitions or disks, and exporting an LVM partition for the
>  DomU should and does work just fine.

If you don't use RAID 1 on your disk how will you protect  your data
against disk failure?

-- 
Alessandro R.

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