Most f the questions you have asked are really "LVM 101" type questions (not any particular implementation of LVM, but LVM in general). So yes, to use LVM/EVMS/whatever you sort of have to understand the underlying principle of what/why. There's a basic explanation at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_volume_management
No, it doesn't fit on a postcard. > > > > Nope. Some things simply *ARE* complicated. > > Richard Feynman, a great physicist, once stated that if you can not explain a > (physics) problem at a freshman level then you don't understand the problem. > Edward Tufte has a series of books on information design simplifying > complicated things so that you can communicate clearly. Either of these men > are > smarter than you and I put together. I highly recommend reading Tufte's > books > or watch Feynman's testimony at the Challenger committee hearing where he > shows > with a glass of ice water the most likely explanation for the disaster. > Clear, > simple and easily understood by most people. If these men successfully > live/lived by the guideline that complex explanations means you don't > understand, I'm willing to accept it as true to make that one of my guiding > principles. Often simplifications lead to inaccuracies, misinterpretations, and confusion. I'm sure Tufte could have compressed his series of books to a series of postcards as well. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
