gmirror disks vs partitions

[Matthew X. Economou]

> Apart from potentially avoiding a whole disk from being copied
> during a resync after a crash, are there any other advantages to
> using partition level mirroring instead of drive level mirroring?

Joe,

Partition-level software RAID plus LVM is how the following Slashdot
poster manages extendable (and inequally sized disk) arrays on Linux:

http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=169386&cid=14117414

Best wishes,
Matthew

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