[K12OSN] Reasons to Use LVM

[Peter Scheie]

I agree that LVM just complicates things.  A few years back, when disks 
were smaller, it would have been useful (but wasn't available 
then--figures).  Nowadays disks are so large that it's not really much 
help, at least in the context of an LTSP server.  And if the LVM gets 
trashed, realistically you're cut off from your data even if it's 
actually intact on the disk.  With regular (non-LVM) partitions, you at 
least have a chance to boot Knoppix and mount the data partition and 
recover the data even if the boot partition is toast.  So, I rarely use 
LVM in K12LTSP setups any more.  My $0.02.

Peter

Mark Trimble wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running Compaq hardware RAIDs and was wondering if there's any 
> compelling reasons to use LVM in my K12LTSP v6 installation. I've used 
> LVM in the past on Debian/Skolelinux installations and then it only 
> seemed to complicate hard disk administration without offering any 
> apparent benefits.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark
> 
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