Disk Layout/Partitioning Practices

[Alan Dunkley]

On Wednesday 28 Jan 2004 3:50 pm, WipeOut wrote:
> Alan Dunkley wrote:
> >..{snip}..
> >
> >Hope this helps, I have based my current system design on years of
> >experience, (and no decent LVM, not like AIX anyhow) probably not valid
> >nowadays but old habits ...  and having 2x80GB RAID-1 disks helps.
>
> I was considering using LVM on my next server.. I would be interested to
> hear what issues do you have with the current implimentation of LVM on
> Linix..

I have not looked at LVM for a while, so my feelings about LVM may be out of 
date, but you cannot boot off a LVM partition.  I dont know whether LVM2/2.6 
addresses this or not.  The other issue is that not all filesystems are 
growable, no point growing a LV if the filesystem is static.

Hope this clarifies it.
-- 
Alan D