> I forgot to mention in my original question that /boot wouldn't be in > LVM, it'd be an ordinary partition.
On a separate minidisk, I hope. 8-) > Thank you for pointing out the fsck time consideration. Doesn't having > ext3 fs reduce the fsck time? Depends if you have ext3 built into the kernel. Also, do you need journaling on a file system that will take you at most a minute to fsck, and theoretically should have no significant number of files in it? It's a matter of minimizing the number of things that can go wrong at a time where there's not a lot of things that the OS can do to protect itself other than give up in a writhing heap of ashes. > My motivation in considering LVM is to get a general solution to my > Linux dasd constraints that I can use on all my Linux > guests. My Linux > guests start out as clones with about 4GB of disk; a default > install of > SLES 8. Different problem, then. What I use is: 1) / as ext2 or ext3 (depending on distribution and platform -- usually ext2 on zSeries) 2) all other filesystems as ext3 3) if a file system needs to be bigger than a physical volume, then use LVM and create ext3 filesystems on the logical volumes created by LVM. That works on pretty-much all flavors of Linux and all platforms, and if something goes horribly wrong, then diagnostics are pretty straightforward, and I can usually get the systems up to the point that you can at least try to fix things w/o a rescue system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
