On Sat, 2013-03-02 at 01:01 +1030, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 01 March 2013, Christopher Meng sent: > > And, fedoraforum suggest me using ext4 instead of lvm. > > If you're never going to span a partition across more than one drive > (which can be dangerous - if one of the drives fail, you lose what's on > both of them), and if you're never going to use the snapshot feature of > LVM to duplicate one of its volumes, then there's little point in using > LVM on your drive. They would appear to be the two main reasons to > deliberately choose to use LVM. ---- actually, I have had an occasion (granted just one) where I had a really large (4TB) LVM and added more drives to the system and created a new 'PV' but I joined them together as a single 'logical' volume. I believe that is what you are referring to called 'spanning'.
It was a breeze and this was a server with RAID 10 so there's little risk when you lose a drive. LVM's provide a lot of added flexibility at the price of complexity. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
