Lonnie Olson wrote: > Dave Long wrote: >> My manager has used Veritas Volume Manager extensively and swares by >> it. However, the license fees per processor can be quite rediculous, >> so I suggested LVM. I was wondering what your experiences with LVM2 >> in an enterprise environment have been and would you be confident in >> replacing Veritas with LVM? >> > > LVM is totally awesome and stable. Not quite as cool as ZFS, but that > isn't yet stable on Linux just yet. > > Go for it. > > Just know that getting a root partition on LVM can require some hoops to > jump through, though not impossible.
Actually it's the boot partition that probably will cause the most amount of trouble. Grub, last I checked, doesn't work well with LVM to fetch kernels and stuff. As for root partitions, the initial ramdisks on any modern distro will support LVM and auto-discovery of LVM volumes. In fact the default install of Fedora has used LVM for root for a couple of years now. > > --lonnie > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > -- Michael Torrie Assistant CSR, System Administrator Chemistry and Biochemistry Department Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 +1.801.422.5771 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
