is lvm deprecated?

Timothy Murphy gayleard at eircom.net
Sat May 9 12:26:31 UTC 2009


Mike Burger wrote:

> It's actually very simple and painless.

LVM is reasonably simple.

But in my view its disadvantages -
particularly the difficulty of dealing with any kind of corruption -
far outweigh its advantages.

The main advantage - the ease with which partition sizes
can be changed - is much less significant
in this era of enormous disks.



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