On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Chuck Anderson <cra@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 08:36:31AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> journaling filesystem you really shouldn't have any filesystem metadata >> integrity problems on power loss; that is, if you have barriers on >> (which ext3 doesn't by default) and if your storage can pass barriers >> (which lvm doesn't), or if you have drive write cache disabled (which >> hurts performance pretty badly). > > I wasn't aware that LVM destroyed the kind of guarantees about > filesystem metadata being written out to disk that jounaling > filesystems rely on? If so, should we perhaps rethink the decision to > use LVM by default on Fedora installs? > What was the reason for using LVM in the first place. My most recent install I was really tempted to not go with the defaults but because I really don't know much about filesystems, I figured the best thing in that case was stick to the defaults. Now I am reconsidering again...could someone explain the comparative advantages/disadvantages ? Before i do something stupid . -- If opinions were really like assholes we'd each have just one -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
