Dne 11.1.2011 15:06, Richard Grundy napsal(a): > Hi, > > I'm building a new RAID5 array (of 5 1.5 TB drives) with mdadm and > would like to know the benefits of creating an LVM on top of this are > instead of just creating the filesystem on the md directly. I've never > had a problem growing the array and then resizing the filesystem > before and wondered if in this situation the only gain would be lvm > snapshot stuff? I'm planning to use ext4 for this array, if that makes > any difference. > > Thanks in advanced, > > Rich > -- > 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 Really depends on your needs.. It makes sense to use LVM for virtualization and iSCSI to get rid of big file images (unwanted fs overhead/fragmentation). But yes, in some use cases this is OK. If you don't need snapshots or whatever LVM feature, then go the simplest way - no LVM. HTH, Z. -- 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
