On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net> wrote: > > The reason its rare is more likely that Linux hasn't been able to boot > from mdadm partitions until recently.
IIRC it's been available in Debian since lenny in 2009. But yes, if you began using linux in, say, 1994 or so, that's "recently".... ;-) > I'm one of those people who see little value in LVM. It just adds > complexity without doing anything that a little planning could usually > avoid. Of course, I'm not running a large datacentre with the need to > frequently reallocate disk space on the fly... > It's hard to overstate just how much flexibility LVM brings to the table in the day job. And if you've done any AIX work, it's basically a port of AIX's LVM, so you already know it. Frankly I use it at home now too, disks are big these days. AND (pet peeve...) you don't need to partition beneath it anymore.
