Neil Bothwick wrote: > Why do you make such a big deal of not using LVM? It achieves everything > you want to, and more, without the compromises.
There's one thing that has prevented me from ever using LVM: the need to have an initrd (or initramfs). From what I remember, this has always required manually copying some utilities like the LVM tools to the initrd (or writing a script that does it), and remembering to do it every time I update one of the tools, and not to forget copying all required libraries as well, and so on. OTOH, I have stopped looking at solutions that need an initrd quite some time ago, so things might be easier nowadays. How do you manage your initrd? Do you even need one? > And what happens with 500GB is no longer enough and you want to add more > space. How do you resize your "partitions" to use space on the second > disk? Even though I have used resize2fs in the past, I have always thought that this tool was kind of a hack. Doesn't the resizing operation carry some risk? And if it goes wrong (e.g. a power outage), do you loose the complete content of the partition? And from what I remember, you can't resize a mounted ext3 partition, so you have to boot to a rescue CD, hope that all your LVM tools are there (they normally are, but what version?) and perform the resize operation there. But I'd love to be proven wrong on all the points above! This would certainly motivate me to look into LVM seriously this time. It really seems to be the right solution to the various problems I have seen with static partitions. -- Remy
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