Need advice from real-world Linux Admins

[strider952]

Hi All,

I'm working on a product that offers SCSI and Fiber Channel storage over Ethernet. My question is, how are disks being used in the "real world"? Does anyone partition their data (not system) disks anymore? Or are you more likely to use a logical volume manager?

I gather their isn't a Linux distro with a "native" logical volume manager. Whose LVM is being used, and how do you have it set up?

How common are RAIDS in Linux production environments? What RAIDS are being used?

Sorry if these are a lot of questions, but I want to focus my testing on scenarios that are actually in production.

 

[strider952]

Any ideas? Anyone?

 

[aixmurderer]

I believe Suse offers a LVM, but I cannot confirm that as I don't have a copy of it.

As for RAID, we have Compaq 2U units which offers a hardware RAID solution, seems to work pretty well. IBM Certified Confused - MQSeries
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[mfarroyo]

I am sure that Mandrake 8.2 has LVM support built-in. I am using LVM to partition and create data volumes across multiple drives (using Reiserfs as the "cooked" filesystem).

It has been up and running for several months now without any problems. I feel that the LVM management tools are still not mature. If LVM is a requirement, why not take a look at Veritas, I believe they have more mature LVM tools.