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Christeas<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">p_christ at hol.gr</A>> wrote: +</I>>>><i> What do you think about switching from defaulting to installing on raw +</I>>>><i> partitions to lvm +</I>>>><i> installing on LVs like fedora does ? +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> I vote against that. (=to be enabled by default) +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> LVM is fine for "enterprise" setups, or better, installations where the +</I>>><i> (expert) admin will need to resize/move partitions in the future. But, for +</I>>><i> simple machines/users, the complexity of having LVM is IMHO not worth it. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> (remember also that on all *nix OSes, you can just add a partition, move some +</I>>><i> files like /usr/share/doc into it and then mount it on /usr/share/doc, thus +</I>>><i> freeing /usr of some space. No LVM, no virtualization, no ZFS required) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> It's not as easy as LVM (need to use a partitionner). +</I>><i> Diskdrake and the like will force you to umount the partitions to resize +</I>><i> which may needs to boot on a rescue CD (eg for resizing / fs) +</I>><i> It may not be possible ie: +</I> +A rescue CD like Sysrescuecd is easy to use and comes with all the tools +needed. +It would be nice if the rescue option of the eventual release Mageia +dvds contained the few utilities necessary for this. + +><i> - you already have 4 primary partitions and none of them is an extended one. +</I> +A gpt partition table solves this problem. +Standard gpt allows 128 partitions in less space than is typically used +with an mbr partition table with an extended partition. +As well, there is a backup partition table at the end of the disk, so it +is inherently more reliable. + +><i> - If you've a small 8Go partition at start of the disk followed by one +</I>><i> To partition +</I>><i> and you want to increase the first one, you're screwed without LVM +</I>><i> With LVM, you can just got some free space from anywhere (even another disk) +</I> +You can do that with symbolic links if you don't want to resize the +partitions. Although I wouldn't partition a disk like that in the first +place. (I prefer dividing a disk into a least several partitions. I +have 8 on my current system.) + +><i> What's more, one gains many features: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - snapshots (yes snapshots for sql db backups are not for end users) but still +</I>><i> usefull for saving the whole system at one fixed time +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - you can extend some filesystems from space from other disks +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - it's easier to add space where needed when defaults partitions sizing proved +</I>><i> to be altered after some usage +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - one can live resize (w/o umouting/remounting) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - one can use snapshots in order to rollback dangerous update +</I>><i> (eg: for trying initscript -> systemd switch, ...) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I think it brings many usefull features. +</I>><i> Those who don't want LVM could still do manual partitionning. +</I> +These seem to be mostly enterprise-oriented factors, unless I'm missing +something. +For now at least, I prefer manual partitionning to be the default. + +-- +André +</PRE> + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002784.html">[Mageia-dev] cleaning old architecutres in glibc and elsewhere +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002773.html">[Mageia-dev] time to switch from raw partitions to lvm? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2759">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2759">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2759">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2759">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |