Felix Miata wrote:
On 2011/12/05 08:43 (GMT-0500) Anton Aylward composed:
if you do allocate all the space, LVM lets you do something that the "extended" partition doesn't. A LVM volume group may span more than one disk - logical[5] or spindle. Slide another drive in there, put LVM on it, add it to the first volume group and you can extend the fs across it. This is not mounting a new fs, this really is increasing the size of the fs and making it span more than one drive.
Sounds like the same disadvantage as RAID0: one spindle dies, and takes down more than one's data in the process. I don't have faith in hardware that justifies recommending this to anyone.
Actually, I have LVM on RAID5, so that's not an issue. However, LVM brings a lot of flexibility to disk management. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org