On 09/27/2013 11:25 AM, Kwan Lowe wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior
> <asmartins@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> Well, I think this is one of the big examples of what
>> we can do with LVM: http://www.greyoak.com/lvmdrive.html
>
> This is one of the top reasons that I use LVM on my home builds. I
> generally build with an SSD as the OS disk and a large SATA drive as
> my /home. When I need a bigger disk, which happens occasionally, I can
> either add or move up to a larger disk. I tend to just move up to a
> larger disk as I prefer a single disk to multiple disks for both
> reliability, reduced noise, and reduced power usage.
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So we can generally say that LVM offers no real drawbacks in terms of
flexibility, but it seems like we are mostly talking about homebrew setups.
What about in a high iops situation? Is there any evidence/testing out
there that might show that there is some overhead of LVM that might
impact total throughput?
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