[PLUG] Disk Spanning for NFS directory

[Cooper Stevenson]

Holger,

Check out my LVM documentation here:

  http://www.mwvlug.org/lvm/lvm.pdf

This should help make learning LVM much easier and save you extra steps!


-Cooper

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 12:10, Holger Stephan wrote:
> Excellent! Thank you so much Paul!
> 
> It's a fresh install so the reformatting is not a problem. 
> 
> Holger
> 
> On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 11:59, Paul Heinlein wrote:
>     On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Holger Stephan wrote:
>     
>     > How can I combine two disks to a single (NFS) directory? Is this
>     > done with RAID? Is there a tutorial available? I have a box with two
>     > hard drives. Another box can be configured to use a NFS mount as an
>     > expansion storage, but only one mount (it's a network appliance).
>     
>     Holger,
>     
>     Look at the LVM stuff:
>     
>       http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
>     
>     Red Hat includes all the LVM functionality, so you won't have to
>     rebuild a kernel or anything. Sadly, however, you'll have to backup
>     your disk data, do some LVM hand waving, reformat your drives, and
>     then restore your data.
>     
>     It works pretty well, however. I've got an 860GB LVM partition
>     (formatted with XFS) at work, and it works pretty well for both NFS
>     mounts and Samba shares.
>     
>     --Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>
>     
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