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<div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">Michael Scherer wrote:<br>
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> For a linux system, a lvm logical volume is just another disk.<br>
><br></div></blockquote></div><br>I've had issues in the past because Linux considered LVM just one logical disk and I think the average user would eventually have the same problem as well. I think moving to LVM as the default will create too many complaints and support requests in the end.<br>
<br>A long time ago I had a system with 6 SCSI disks, each 1.2GB. The system was fairly useless with the single disks, but using LVM I had 1 disk of reasonable size. I ran the system for about a year with no problems, but then 1 of the disks failed. Normally this would be a medium inconvenience, because I would just have to restore the files from that one drive to another drive. However, with the LVM, I lost the ability to read the entire LVM. I had to restore the entire system, which was a much bigger pain. I also could not obtain a disk of the same small size for a reasonable price, which I was told would make the problem even bigger.<br>
<br>If I had used some redundancy, then I might have been able to restore the one disk, but I was a novice user and didn't understand the need. I think that most users who use the defaults and probably novice users, or at least will be after Mageia takes off. I think LVM support is a must, but I think making it the default, without also making some redundancy the default, will cause more problems than it solves. <br>
<br>--Jeff<br>
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