Eli Criffield wrote: > Is anyone using lvm for all there file systems safely. We currently > only use lvm for non-system file systems only, but have a test box > that uses lvm for every file system except /boot. > > The test box is working fine but i just wanted to check to see if > there is any reason to not use lvm for system file systems (/usr, > /var, /ect...) before i made a production box all lvm. > > > Also the same question about reiserfs? Does anyone use reiserfs? Is > there any reason not to use reiserfs? Using lvm for all volumes (including the root volume) is a good idea, the "/boot" volume cannot be used with lvm (because the zipl bootloader cannot load the kernel from an lvm device). I would feel comfortable with your setup from the lvm perspective. I would tend not to use reiserfs on s390. Our system test department does do their frequent tests on ext3, in case of trouble the rock solid ext2 filesystem can be used as a drop-in replacement, and the manual recovery tools for the really-worst-case-scenario (filesystem corruption so bad that the filesystem checker gives up and no backup at hand) are far better for the ext family. On the other hand, SuSE does support both filesystems... --
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