Anyone here using LVM? I'm pondering to set one up one day but then again after reading some horror stories of data disappearing randomly etc begun to put me off.
Just wondering what everyone's thoughts on this and what are you using it for right now?
C
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 12:21:20PM +0100, Craig wrote:
Anyone here using LVM? I'm pondering to set one up one day but then again after reading some horror stories of data disappearing randomly etc begun to put me off.
Just wondering what everyone's thoughts on this and what are you using it for right now?
I've been using LVM for about a year and a half now on a reasonably busy machine running 2.4. Haven't had any issues with it and know various other people using it and haven't heard any stories about data loss.
J.
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Jonathan McDowell wrote:
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 12:21:20PM +0100, Craig wrote:
Anyone here using LVM? I'm pondering to set one up one day but then again after reading some horror stories of data disappearing randomly etc begun to put me off.
Just wondering what everyone's thoughts on this and what are you using it for right now?
I've been using LVM for about a year and a half now on a reasonably busy machine running 2.4. Haven't had any issues with it and know various other people using it and haven't heard any stories about data loss.
I've been running LVM for a while now and it has been really useful (dynamic changeing of partitions & swapping them over physical disks is nice).
My next fun challenge though is to move everything off LVM so I can move to a 2.6 kernel...
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On 2004-04-23 12:21:20 +0100 Craig c@macloco.net wrote:
Just wondering what everyone's thoughts on this and what are you using it for right now?
I have it on a test server with reiserfs and ext3, and a very busy production server with ext3. One of the reiserfs partitions (a /var) loses/corrupts data occasionally, but I've not found any problems with ext3 (so that's the one used in production). It has been invaluable, being able to adapt disk sizes and hold some in reserve for unforseen needs. snapshots are also good for a temporary+quick "safer copy" (not really a backup) of a disk.
If you have time, I think it's well worth testing for yourself.
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