<div dir="ltr">I would prefer the 2nd option. Ideally all disks would be members of a RAID(10?) array, with DRBD sitting on top for the replication, and LVM for managing the volume.<div>Another option would be ZFS managing the disks and the volume, while DRBD sitting on top for the replication. This very same scenario would also apply for LVM (thin or thick).</div><div>
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">There's no right or wrong, depends on what your needs are.</span>
<br></div><div><br></div><div>I would avoid having single points of failure though, like single drives in any case...</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Gandalf Corvotempesta <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gandalf.corvotempesta@gmail.com" target="_blank">gandalf.corvotempesta@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi to all<div dir="auto">Let's assume 3 servers with 12 disks each</div><div dir="auto">Would you create one resource per disk and then manage them with something like LVM or a single resource from a huge volume over all disks?</div></div>
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