On Sat, 2013-03-02 at 01:01 +1030, Tim wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 01 March 2013, Christopher Meng sent:
> And, fedoraforum suggest me using ext4 instead of lvm.
If you're never going to span a partition across more than one drive
(which can be dangerous - if one of the drives fail, you lose what's on
both of them), and if you're never going to use the snapshot feature of
LVM to duplicate one of its volumes, then there's little point in using
LVM on your drive. They would appear to be the two main reasons to
deliberately choose to use LVM.
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actually, I have had an occasion (granted just one) where I had a really
large (4TB) LVM and added more drives to the system and created a new
'PV' but I joined them together as a single 'logical' volume. I believe
that is what you are referring to called 'spanning'.
It was a breeze and this was a server with RAID 10 so there's little
risk when you lose a drive.
LVM's provide a lot of added flexibility at the price of complexity.
Craig
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