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+ <H1>[Mageia-dev] time to switch from raw partitions to lvm?</H1>
+ <B>Buchan Milne</B>
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+ <I>Mon Feb 21 21:48:56 CET 2011</I>
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+<PRE>On Monday, 21 February 2011 14:19:23 Michael Scherer wrote:
+&gt;<i> Le lundi 21 f&#233;vrier 2011 &#224; 10:56 +0100, Wolfgang Bornath a &#233;crit :
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Another part of the discussion may be the fact that a large number of
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; users are running dual (or multiple) boot systems, keeping the
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; pre-installed Windows and adding Linux. Others will have Windows and
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Mandriva, adding Mageia.
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; While LVM may be nice if you are running one OS on one harddisk, it
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; may be not so easy when running 3 OS on one harddisk. Or different
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; installations of the same Linux (like stable version and cauldron).
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+IMHO, it is *easier* to run multiple distributions on one machine with LVM, as
+you don't have the problem of having to statically pre-assign partitions to
+different distributions, and then have to image one filesystem to enlarge the
+filesystem before it, shrink the one after it, and put it back ...
+
+The only complication is where to put bootloaders, multiple distros sharing
+/boot is not great, so I just make a few small boot partitions before my PVs.
+
+&gt;<i> I do run lvm on Fedora and mac os x without any trouble. Windows
+</I>
+out-the-box
+
+&gt;<i> will
+</I>&gt;<i> not support any linux file system more than lvm,
+</I>
+There are third-party drivers/software for accessing ext2/ext3 partitions
+under Windows, even LUKS+ext2/ext3. But, on LVM, I don't think there are any
+options.
+
+&gt;<i> and the same goes for
+</I>&gt;<i> os x.
+</I>
+I thought Mac OS X had ext2/ext3 read support?
+
+&gt;<i> For a linux system, a lvm logical volume is just another disk.
+</I>
+That's a bit of an over-simplification. Hot-plugged LVM systems (I have a
+2*2TB external disk enclosure, running in &quot;SAFE50&quot; mode, AKA half RAID0, half
+RAID1, RAID1 is a PV in a separate VG) don't auto-mount like hot-plugged non-
+LVM disks, rescue still have problems activating VGs until recently (may still
+be present), kernel upgrades may still mess up root= parameter on LVM etc.
+etc.
+
+I have been using LVM with online resizing in diskdrake since about Mandrake
+8.2 (with XFS), and I think for users without non-Linux installations, it
+should be made more prominent or the default ... but only when all the
+remaining issues are addressed.
+
+Regards,
+Buchan
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