On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:38:37AM -0800, John Reiser wrote: > On 11/13/2010 03:41 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > Anyway, I think LVM is jolly useful: > [stated advantages snipped] > > One design error is that you cannot "carve out" an ordinary partition > from an LVM. Once a portion of the drive is LVM, then that portion of > the drive is LVM forever until the LVM is completely gone. > This makes LVM a bad neighbor in a consulting environment where > flexibility is king: multiple systems per drive, and many of > the systems do not understand LVM. This is a problem of partitions themselves being very inflexible. Have said that I don't really understand why you'd ever want to do this. "In a consulting environment" you're much more likely to encounter some other mechanism for creating LUNs of the right size on demand, ie. SANs. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
