James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Whether that's right or not, it's still convenient to call the resulting capabilities LVM. Now, it strikes me that the unique contribution by LVM is snapshot and data migration (pvmove). That is, could not the re-allocation stuff be done outside of LVM? Though I suppose, perhaps not as dynamically, eh?
Oddly enough I have never really made use of those features. I have played with them of course but 99% of my LVM use is increasing the size of volumes. This is because I usually don't allocate all of my disk space. I usually only allocate what I need and then leave the rest to expand into later. This is much easier than shrinking volumes and then expanding.
Am I talking any sense, here? Is removing indirection/complication worth the pain?
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