On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > max bianco wrote: >> 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 . > > LVM has a lot of advantages with regard to flexibility: you can add a > disk to a filesystem, for example. It has a lot of nice features. > > Andrew. > but there seems to be some question as to data integrity or ability to recover data in the event of disaster or am i reading too much into this? -- 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
