Fedora 7 install: DISK failure consideration

[Kam Leo]

On 6/2/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
> At 2:30 PM -0700 6/2/07, Kam Leo wrote:
>  ...
> >... LVM rides on top of EXT3
>
> LVM has nothing at all to do with EXT3 or any other filesystem.  It does
> not "ride on top of" anything other than DeviceMapper.

Where did you get that little factoid? Here's where I got mine:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-lvm-intro.html


> >and adds a level of complexity many users do not need.
>  ...
>
> This may be true, but he stated a use for resizing his partitions.  Doing
> that with LVM is a bit involved.  Doing that without LVM requires a backup,
> reformat, restore.
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