On Wed, March 23, 2011 5:43 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Wednesday 23 March 2011 14:04:23 Mr. Jarry wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> >> <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> > And if you don't care about barriers, jfs might be a good choice. >> >> Knowing nothing about "barriers" I tried to find some info and >> came accross this article: >> >> http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/tip/Deciding-when-to-use-Linux-f >> ile-system-barriers >> >> It says, barriers can not work with device mapper (raid, lvm). >> If it is true (?) then because of having all partitions in raid1 (md), >> I need not worry about barriers. Whatever filesystem I picked out, >> I could not use barriers... >> >> Jarry > > md raid devices can do barriers. Don't know about lvm. But lvm is such a > can > of worms I am surprised people still recommend it.
What is wrong with LVM? I've been using it successfully without any issues for years now. It does what it says on the box. -- Joost
