LVM has its own problems, no cluster(you need CLVM), no thin provision, no delta snapshot, no snapshot chain, etc. I can list a long list for its limitation...
> -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Patton [mailto:mpat...@inforelay.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 6:17 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: [Discuss] VM Snapshot > > I would kill for block based snapshots and source virtual disks instead > of the apparent penchant for doing everything as files on a filesystem. > How can it be that hard to use LVM snaps?