  Happy success with LVM and RAID  Buried in this is a little
bit of grumpiness, but only a little. See if you can find it.
Mainly, this is about a success that I thought was worth
Starting in 1999 or so I had Debian running on a PowerCenter Pro
180 (PPC 604 180MHz, 1997 vintage Mac clone) maxed out to 512MB
of memory. I ran an 8-drive RAID5 on an Adaptec SCSI card in an
HP RAID rack with 18GB 10K RPM disks, for a total of a (loud)
118GB of disk space. Just for fun, I also ran a cryptoloop on
top of it. On top of that, of course, I had LVM (1.0, since 2
wasn't out yet and neither was the 2.6 kernel) and ext3. I even
threw in a Tulip-based "fast" (100baseT) ethernet card.  This
machine served files via NFS (fast enough to play audio and
video from it directly, which meant it was plenty fast for my
purposes), served IMAP, ran spam filtering, retrieved email from
a number of remote accounts, ran a web server (with very minimal
traffic, but also webmail), and basically chugged along like a
good little server.  T