On Friday 24 of August 2018 19:23:09 Mike Bird wrote: > On Fri August 24 2018 09:09:14 Gene Heskett wrote: > > The consensus is that LVM still isn't quite ready for prime time, and > > with big drives, no longer needed. > > That is an opinion and also the consensus as of 15-20 years ago. > > It is not the current consensus. > > We have used LVM since 2004 or before. It would take too long > for me to determine the exact start date and the total number > of systems upon which we have deployed LVM. I can however quote > you from memory the number of problems we have experienced: zero. > > For simple systems it is generally easiest to use only a boot and > an "everything else" partition with neither LVM nor complex > partitioning. > > For more complex systems LVM is a valuable and robust tool and > much more flexible than partitioning. Within a single complex > system we may use multiple volume groups with different PE sizes, > different RAID levels, different block/inode ratios, different > reserved block percentages, different mount attributes (e.g. > noexec), and different user quotas. We currently use ext3 > exclusively but others may also use different filesystem types > in different logical volumes as appropriate. > > FWIW we have many times found LVM helpful when migrating from > failing hard drives to new drives - just add the new physical > volumes, remove the old physical volumes, and everything is > migrated by magic. > > --Mike > Yes, just under that I would sign! For me too, LVM is an indispensable tool. In addition to managing filesystems, in my case, LVM is also an indispensable tool for virtual machine drives (of course I use Debian with Linux KVM as hypervisor). In the years when I use it, I remember only one problem. But that's a long past. Cheers -- Slávek --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
