[Mageia-dev] time to switch from raw partitions to lvm?

Mon Feb 21 10:10:20 CET 2011

* P. Christeas (p_christ at hol.gr) wrote:
+> On Sunday 20 February 2011, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
+> > Hi
+> > 
+> > What do you think about switching from defaulting to installing on raw
+> > partitions to lvm
+> > installing on LVs like fedora does ?
+> 
+> I vote against that. (=to be enabled by default)
+> 
+> LVM is fine for "enterprise" setups, or better, installations where the 
+> (expert) admin will need to resize/move partitions in the future. But, for 
+> simple machines/users, the complexity of having LVM is IMHO not worth it. 
+> 
+> (remember also that on all *nix OSes, you can just add a partition, move some 
+> files like /usr/share/doc into it and then mount it on /usr/share/doc, thus 
+> freeing /usr of some space. No LVM, no virtualization, no ZFS required)
+
+I mostly agree, but the snapshot feature can really be an advantage...
+
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+
+Olivier Thauvin
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