I don’t think it will get any more basic than that. Or maybe this? If the doctor diagnoses you, you can either accept this, get 2nd opinion, or study medicine to verify it. In short lvm has been introduced to solve some issues of related to starting osd's (which I did not have, probably because of a 'manual' configuration). And it opens the ability to support (more future) devices. I gave you two links, did you read the whole thread? https://www.mail-archive.com/ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg47802.html -----Original Message----- From: Satish Patel [mailto:satish.txt@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: zaterdag 21 juli 2018 20:59 To: ceph-users Subject: Why lvm is recommended method for bleustore Folks, I think i am going to boil ocean here, I google a lot about this topic why lvm is recommended method for bluestore, but didn't find any good and detail explanation, not even in Ceph official website. Can someone explain here in basic language because i am no way expert so just want to understand what is the advantage of adding extra layer of complexity? I found this post but its not i got lost reading it and want to see what other folks suggesting and offering in their language https://www.mail-archive.com/ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg46768.html ~S _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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