On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 05:35:30AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   first question -- is there any sane reason not to use LVM these
> > days?  the manual opens (predictably) with showing the student how
> > to allocate fixed partitions during the install, and leaves LVM
> > setup for later in the week as an "advanced" topic.  i see it the
> > other way around -- LVM should be the norm nowadays.
>
> No reason to use LVM. The traditional "md" software raid is much
> simpler and easier to manage (only one tool to learn - mdadm,
> compared to the 100 lvm management programs). Historically, LVM is a
> knock-off of XLV which was the companion partitionning tool to SGI's
> XFS filesystem.

  perhaps showing my ignorance but does mdadm allow you to do things
like resize "partitions"?  i haven't worked with it, but i was under
the impression it was strictly for RAID.  perhaps i'll have to read up
on it soon.

rday

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