Am 21.01.2013 07:43, schrieb Bill Davidsen: > Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> >> Am 20.01.2013 02:00, schrieb Ranjan Maitra: >>> Thanks again for your quick response. >>> >>> OK, so you are suggesting I move to lvm, or leave things as is, to ext4? >>> The new installer does not give me an option to format ext4 (but I can >>> keep it as is, I guess). >>> >>> How does one convert from ext4 to lvm? Is there any benefit to moving >>> to lvm? >> >> you should really read some basic documentations >> >> ext4 is a filesystem >> btrfs is a filesystem >> lvm is NOT a filesystem >> >> you have ext4, btrfs, whatever FS ON TOP of LVM >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_volume_management >> >> for most private environments there is no real benefit of LVM >> spread LVM over more than one disk with no RAID under it >> is simply dumb becasue if ONE of the disks goes down >> you have a problem >> > Your point about loss of data is well taken, but having data on any storage without RAID for error recovery is a > risk, having data on just one machine is a risk. The admin has to balance cost and benefit, for both hardware and > administrative learning curve considered as "cost." but there is a difference if i have only one disk which can go bad and all is away or i have as example 4 disks an dif ONE OF THEM goes bad all is away
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