RAID and LVM on Amazon EC2 (part I)

This is the first part of three articles I'm posting for a great storage solution using RAID, LVM and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). First, you need to choose your RAID implementation. Personally, I prefer to use RAID 5 on Amazon EC2, combined with LVM2. For setting a RAID 5 up and running you will need to raise at least 3 EBS volumes and attach them to your instance (let’s say: sdb1, sdb2, sbd3).

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