On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 07:50 -0800, John Reiser wrote:
Gilboa Davara wrote:
> Use LVM.
> Trust me.
> You won't be sorry.
I've been there, done that, and regretted it deeply.
I got rid of LVM the first chance I could.
LVM does not inter-operate with anything else.
Grub does not work under LVM.
Why should it?
Parted does not grok LVM:
LVM doesn't require parted for in-order to resize partitions.
It's called logical volume manager for a reason, you know?
you cannot create a hard partition from LVM free space.
HUH?
Why-on-earth-would-you-want-to-do-that?
Using the rescue CDs is a nightmare under LVM: the LVM
setup is not recognized automatically (you must remember
what it is) and the rescue environment contains no help
or documentation on LVM (such as: the _syntax_ for naming
the pieces!)
I can agree that Feodra documentation on the subject is... missing.
A. TLDP has an excellent on-line documentation. [1]
B. system-config-lvm is improvement constantly.
C. Documentation missing? Join the documentation team and help them fix
it.
Never the less, I never had any problem mounting lvm under rescue CDs.
LVM probably kills all low-level backup and recovery.
At also "kills" when you meed to dynamically set and modify large number
of partitions on multiple drives.
Do not use LVM unless you are 100.000000% certain
that you will never be faced with a hardware disaster.
... If LVM is stable enough to be the default option under RHEL, its
stable enough for me.
Either way, no-body is forcing LVM down your throat.
Don't like it? Don't use it. Nobody is forcing it down your throat.
- Gilboa
[1]
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/