> You don't need LVM and thus you have one less layer > with potential failures and errors. using lvm for just partitioning would be silly. but lvm gives you much more than that. the ability to span partitions over multiple raid arrays. and the main reason i use it is to be able to grow/shrink storage if something changes in the future. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html