Linux News User wrote:
but does it work on standard FS's I mean on reiser FS's that aren't using LVM ?
Yes, but LVM makes it much easier to maintain big systems. Even if you already have hardware RAID as a first virtual layer, so that your system only sees one dist where in fact there are many, using LVM makes a lot of sense, because it is _completely_ device independent (so you can span several hardware-RAID controllers and include their discs into LVM managed partitions, for example), plus esp. for databases (e.g. Oracle) and raw I/O you need to be able to treat partitions as easily as files, and LVM can do that, plus there's a limit of physical partitions on a disc that does not exist for LVM (LVM can provide up to 255 logical volumes), so this is again a unique thing only LVM can do. Ok, this last one is a database thing, if you don't use raw I/O you don't care too much about this particular advantage.
Because I think that LVM work for configurations that have more that 1 HDU ? or I'm wrong ?
LVM works with anything, even if you're using it with just one physical partition. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq