On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 21:23 -0400, Dan Trevino wrote: > There are about a million valid DR strategies, but it seems to me > that /boot, in particular, is overrated. If I have the data, I'm good. > LVM is extremely valuable, scratch that, it is *invaluable* for > dealing with large dynamic storage requirements.
No doubt LVM is awesome and I am surely not knocking LVM or saying don't use it. I just don't go putting / on a LVM unless I have good cause. Now I am not talking VMs that is entirely a different story, probably should have clarified that sooner. I am talking more when / is running on actual hardware. In the VM sense, / on the host. When it comes to VMs the game changes entirely :) My entire VMs reside on individual LVM partitions, and they are not partitioned up within that space. I thought about it long ago (I think I brought it up on this list), but they are so tiny its not much of an issue. The main thing that can grow is logs. Which if you use a log host, and log to another machine via the net. Then that problem goes way. Then I just have issues with applications/users filling up stuff, etc. Which that stuff I still tend to put on its own partition. I just local bind mount those partitions on the file server before export. Which can be seen in the diskless systems presentation I did a while back. With diskless systems (running on actual hardware no VMs) I go one step further. I create a LVM for the shared part of the system. Then for anything specific to that machine, I create other partitions and again bind mount all that to a single nfs export. Not sure which route I will take if/when I switch to iSCSI. If I go that route or remain with nfs rootfs. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
