On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > If you have a physical disk that has many LVM volumes on it, you end up in > > a situation when disk congestion state change is reported to all the > > volumes. So it will create O(n) problem at the other side. > > *sigh* I can almost understand why people want to use lvm to combine > multiple disks, but why make the partition thing even worse... To protect the services from each other --- so that mail storm won't blow user's directories, users blowing their space can't corrupt the system updates, logs are kept safely even if other partition overflows etc. I just know some admins who prefer to have separate filesystems instead of quotas for this purpose. Mikulas -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
