like email subject tell: advantages? lvm suport - snapshots 2011/1/11 Zdenek Kaspar <zkaspar82@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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 > -- Roberto Spadim Spadim Technology / SPAEmpresarial -- 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
