Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-21 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Philip Webb wrote: > Does anyone have advice based on experience using LVM ? > I sb partitioning a new 320 GB hard drive soon for a simple desktop box. > That is 8 times the size of the HDD in my present machine, > which I haven't exhausted by any means. LVM seems more professional > & allows

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-07 Thread felix
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:26:33PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > A total non-issue in my experience. I've never had an LVM problem yet, > but maybe I'm just lucky. The one thing you do need to be aware of it > that you require LVM support at boot time or shortly thereafter. So > either compile

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-07 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 07 October 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: - You loose bit performance, but not much, you won't feel it without benchmarks. I very much doubt this. LVM is one extra layer between the filesystem and the physical disk and it basically consists of a mapping b

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 07 October 2007, Philip Webb wrote: > Does anyone have advice based on experience using LVM ? The majority of folks around here will have used LVM :-) > I sb partitioning a new 320 GB hard drive soon for a simple desktop > box. That is 8 times the size of the HDD in my present machi

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 07 October 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: > Philip Webb schrieb: > > Does anyone have advice based on experience using LVM ? > Simple pros and cons? > > Pro: > - You loose bit performance, but not much, you won't feel it without > benchmarks. I very much doubt this. LVM is one extra

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Philip Webb schrieb: Does anyone have advice based on experience using LVM ? I sb partitioning a new 320 GB hard drive soon for a simple desktop box. That is 8 times the size of the HDD in my present machine, which I haven't exhausted by any means. LVM seems more professional & allows flexib

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-07 Thread William Kenworthy
Never had a problem with LVM. On a mythTV box with LVM, started with 80GB IDE, then added in a 300Gb IDE, then a few months later another 300mb, sata this time. Basicly transparent to Myth I have avoided LVM on laptops before now because its extra complexity and I'll never add multiple disks. B

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-07 Thread Dan Johansson
On Sunday 07 October 2007, Philip Webb wrote: > Does anyone have advice based on experience using LVM ? > I sb partitioning a new 320 GB hard drive soon for a simple desktop box. > That is 8 times the size of the HDD in my present machine, > which I haven't exhausted by any means. LVM seems mo

[gentoo-user] LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-07 Thread Philip Webb
Does anyone have advice based on experience using LVM ? I sb partitioning a new 320 GB hard drive soon for a simple desktop box. That is 8 times the size of the HDD in my present machine, which I haven't exhausted by any means. LVM seems more professional & allows flexibility for unforeseen st