Solaris / Resizing LVM PVs (was: Debian experiences)

[Ben Scott]

On 11/5/06, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
>> Who wants a
>> half-height, 18 GB SCSI drive, these days?
>
> Someone who runs older hardware at home

  Yah, I used to do that, too.  But when you can get a PATA disk
that's two orders of magnitude larger in capacity, half the size
physically, a quarter of the heat and noise output, and five times
faster, it gets hard to justify even "free" old hardware.

> 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.

  Yup, and with eSATA starting to take off, I expect this will become
more and more common.  (Though I do wish something like Firewire had
won out instead.  It would be nice to have just *one* cable running
between the boxes.)

> That could be done with SCSI even more easily; one cable
> going back to the controller.

  Yup.  Old trick, and a great use for that extra AT tower case you
had sitting around.  But see above about the march of hardware.  You
can have the giant external SCSI JBOX, or a single PATA disk which
holds twice as much.

-- Ben