Rodney Baker said the following on 01/28/2012 10:06 PM:
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:14:32 jdd wrote:
Le 28/01/2012 14:15, Anton Aylward a écrit :
decades ago) there are practical problems, but I've found LVM gets around most of them.
lvm makes it very difficult to repair a damaged partition table and if any of the involved partition fails, all the system is lost
jdd
BTDT. Lost one partition in the middle of an lvm volume across 3 physical partitions - could not recover anything! I did have a backup, but not completely up to date. I changed my backup procedures after that. :-)
Mind you, this was a long time ago, FC5 from memory, but I haven't used lvm since! Things have hopefully improved since then...
Yes they have. I discussed this with Rodney and others a while back; go check the archives. Much comes with experience and practice and reading the manuals :-) Make sure you back up /etc/lvm/* *sigh* Sometimes I miss floppy disks for taking snapshots of just one or two config files like that *sigh* -- All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. -- Galileo Galilei. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org