Patrick Bartek wrote:
--- On Tue, 7/27/10, Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com> wrote:
> Patrick Bartek wrote:
>> [snip]
>> I never could see any advantage to LVMs (over "real"
> partitions) other than being able to resize them while they
> are mounted.
> They do make it easy to move stuff to new hardware, that
> can be important as a
> time saving if you have to do it often.
Easier than using cp or dd or rsync, etc.? How much easier can it get?
Having done moves, way easier. Even I think it's easier, and I use a more
manual
toolset such as you mentioned. But a single command to move an LV from one PV to
another PV, without editing boot scripts and such really is as simple as it can get.
I guess it all depends on what you're accustomed to.
The process of creating a partition, creating the filesystem, moving the data,
and changing at least fstab and maybe grub.conf has a lot more steps, and
usually requires editing config files as well. I trust I'll never be doing that
so often I get accustomed to it, it usually means either bad initial
configuration or hardware problems. Note usually in that.
I just don't like one more layer I have to trust, although I really haven't had
trouble with it in some years on other people's systems.
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