We use LVM on our servers and although we have yet to have a crash (I know it's coming) my understanding is the same as yours.
However, we build our LVMs on a RAID5 set, so that mitigates the problem somewhat. We can swap out a problematic drive without issue. I highly recommend against booting into an LVM, however. Assuming you have enough space, a small 80GB drive (or whatever the smallest that you can buy now) makes a good boot/OS drive. That way you can hedge your bets for the machine booting even if and when the LVM becomes messed up. J On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 09:01 -0500, R A L Carter wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Does anyone have experience with the Logical Volume Manager (LVM)? From what > I read it seems to solve the problem of finding out,too late, that some of > the partitions on you HD are too small and others are too big. > > However, it also seems to give up one of the big advantages of partitioning: > if one logical volume (virtual partition) within a volume group (a set of > logical volumes) becomes corrupted then it seems to me that the whole of the > volume group is corrupted. If this is correct then logical partitions are > not really protected from corruption of other logical partitions in the same > volume group. > > Does this sound right? > > Robin > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > -- Key fingerprint: BDE0 DE52 B8C0 0CDF 7653 E5A2 D861 7877 0D3B 813E http://www.jonwatson.ca +1.403.770.2837 "Trying to learn to hack on a DOS or Windows machine or under MacOS is like trying to learn to dance while wearing a body cast" - ESR _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
