<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2658.2"> <TITLE>RE: [Linux-cluster] is necesary to to build GFS on top of LVM ?</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > there is any advantage of using LVM in this scenario? assuming your LUN is dedicated to a single partition, no probably not. LVM comes in handy when growing partitions/disks. Often we can't just extend the end of the partition because it will run up against a neighboring one. So in order to have disjoint growth, we need to use LVM and Physical Volumes and grow that way. </BODY> </HTML>