Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3562 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Monday 2008-02-18 at 08:15 -0500, James Knott wrote:

> While in some ways I agree with your sentiments, the question I have is what 
> would you do if that was a SCSI drive?  Wouldn't that limit still apply 
> regardless?

Typically, scsi drives were smaller, and it was easier to add many drives 
(no limit of 4 drives per system).

> You might consider using LVM as, IIRC, it's not affected by that limit.

But it forces to repartition the entire drive, and I don't feel LVM is as 
safe.

One of the mains reasons of having many partition is damage contention, 
like the partitions on a ship. If you have a bad failure, the damage, or 
the worst damage, is limited to a partition. I have had my day saved more 
than once when I had a partition fully and irrecoverably lost. If I had 
everything on a single partition, I would have lost everything!

My fear is that the LVM layer may remove that security. A problem in that 
layer could damage all partitions inside.

I would need assurance, real assurance, that this is not the case.

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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