Seacoast LUG notes, 10-Sept-2007, Ben Scott on RAID and LVM

[Ted Roche]

Twelve people attended last night's session of the Seacoast Linux User
Group, a chapter of the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group, held as
usual on the second Monday of the month at the UNH Durham campus, Morse
Hall room 301.

Ben Scott had presented "RAID and LVM" and he had lots of information,
and attendees had lots of questions, comments and war stories. There was
plenty of participation, and Ben was still going strong when I had to
excuse myself at 10 PM. Ben had some good tables in HTML and diagrams in
SVG to show the concepts, and used the network to log into his home
machine and the GNHLUG web server Liberty to demonstrate the command
line and GUI tools used to manage and maintain LVM and RAID. Side
discussions included disaster recovery, pros and cons to reliability,
redundancy and downtime, and the use of SMART interfaces on hard disk
drives. I'm sure everyone learned something. I certainly did.

Thanks to Ben for the presentation and Rob for hosting the meeting.

-- 
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com