[Discuss] Insight about LVM

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 10/22/2011 01:33 AM, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
> I've got a pretty good feel for the technology and functionality, I could
> write a white paper on how to use it.
>
> The question I have for this group is this...
>
> Do you trust it? Is it reliable? is it a viable technology?
LVM is the default for enterprise Linux, both RHEL as well as SuSE. I
have not heard any issues with LVM. The biggest advantage is that you
can resize logical volumes, add new hardware to extend logical volumes.
It gives you quite a bit of flexibility over using physical partitioning.

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