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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>><i> +</I>><i> - you already have 4 primary partitions and none of them is an extended one. +</I>><i> +</I>><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>><i> +</I>><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> +I am still not convinced of how easy this can be. For having attempted +to manage (and learn) how to manage LVM partitons with CentOS, it is +quite complicated. So it certainly has many advantages, but I'm awaiting +an intuitive disk manager like Diskdrake to manage this stuff without +the need of preliminary knowledge. + +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002703.html">[Mageia-dev] time to switch from raw partitions to lvm? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002706.html">[Mageia-dev] time to switch from raw partitions to lvm? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2704">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2704">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2704">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2704">[ 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> |