Solaris / Resizing LVM PVs (was: Debian experiences)

Tom Buskey tom at buskey.name
Sun Nov 5 17:22:30 EST 2006


On 11/5/06, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/5/06, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> > I've been using VMware server for playing with OSes.  Solaris works well  ...
>
>   Hmmm, that's a good thought.  I went to all the trouble of setting
> up the nifty multi-boot system, and I think it's blinded me.  I keep
> ignoring virtualization.  Hammer myopia.  Thanks for the nudge.  :)
>
> >>   A third disk would also get the job done, but this is a SATA system
> >> and I don't have any extra SATA disks.
> >
> > You've probably got extra SCSI or PATA disks though.  The march of
> > progress.  *sigh*
>
>   I've got more PATA disks that I can remember.  The only reason I
> don't have more SCSI disks is that I gave away a bucket full of them
> (literally -- a big blue bucket) to another LUG member.  Sadly, the
> bucket was probably worth more than the disks.  Who wants a
> half-height, 18 GB SCSI drive, these days?

Someone who runs older hardware at home :-)  Though a RAID 0 (18 * 5)
of 90GB is going to fail before a 100GB PATA drive.  It is worth doing
to RAID 1 the OS disks though.  I'm using 9GB disks.

Not for production, but enough for home:
I have a bunch of SATA drives in a "box" with a fan and a PC power
supply.  Long 42" SATA cables run from it to the controller in my home
server.  That could be done with SCSI even more easily; one cable
going back to the controller.  I wish I had a way to do this with PATA
but the cables won't go far enough.

I'm leary of PATA to SCSI or SATA adapters though.  They add a bit of $$ too.

>
>   OTOH, the 15KRPM SAS disks we're getting in servers at work these
> days are *nice*.  :-)

Yet another standard that'll go obsolete :-)


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