[plug] LVM1 - opinions?

[Derek Fountain]

> I'm about to set up a machine with significant amounts of RAID storage,
> and I was wondering if anybody here has any experience with LVM. If so,
> what did you think?
>
> It looks awfully handy, especially on a relatively big machine intended
> to run as-built for years (with OS upgrades as they become available,
> its a terminal server so old software isn't good).

It's great. Reliable, flexible and easy to use. I run my multi-disk machine 
with /usr and /opt as LVM logical disks with ReiserFS on top. Works a treat, 
and the ability to resize on the fly and as required is just so useful you'll 
wonder how you did without it.

I think all Linux distros should create LVM setups by default. That would do 
away with the endless "how big should I make my partitions" threads you see 
on less technical mailing lists than this one.


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