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[jerryvb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jerry VB)]

Michael Hasenstein wrote:
> 
> 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.

OK, but how do I resize my plain old / partition that is Reiser FS?

> 
> > 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.


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