True. We don't utilize that so I can't comment deeply on it, but that may make it attractive to some.
J On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 09:26 -0700, Kevin Anderson wrote: > Perhaps more important is the ability to do snapshots with LVM, which makes > hot backups pretty much seamless, even if the file system is rapidly > changing, such as a Scalix (Or other non DB based) mail server... > > Kev. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 7:55 AM > To: CLUG General > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] LVM > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
