On 12/10/2013 07:07 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 02:43:14PM -0500, Jeff Siddall wrote:
>> On 12/09/2013 11:20 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>>>> then you absolutely want to be running
>>>> them against a snapshot rather than a live FS and LVM makes this easy.
>>>
>>> Never really cared for LVM.  Always used the direct partition approach.
>>
>> Well, perhaps I can try to convince you some more.
>>
>> Take another example of upgrading to a bigger disk.
>>
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> You mean "upgrade all the disks in the raid array". Surely you do not run
> any important machines with single disks?

Sure, but it will work either way.  I run workstations without RAID and 
servers with RAID and the advantages of having an abstraction layer 
between the FS and the hardware -- or the FS and another redundancy 
layer like MD -- are comparable.

Jeff