On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Brett Serkez wrote:

> I have been using CentOS in small businesses since 2003 and never
> once found a reason to use LVM.   I've been using mirroring RAID,
> which has been very useful.   I tend to use the less is more adage,
> keeping my servers simple and lean and use XEN to break out
> functionality. This strategy has proven to be extremely reliable and
> easy to maintain, I can focus the majority of my energy on managing
> WinDoze.
>
> Having taught Linux and Linux administration myself, I see LVM as an
> advanced topic.  Perhaps in larger organizations the perspective is
> different.

  i'm fascinated that you use mirroring RAID as a matter of course,
but consider LVM to be an advanced topic.  in any event, part of the
reason i would consider LVM standard these days is that if you take
the default install configuration with SL6, you get LVM automatically.
that's just part of my thinking.

rday

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