On Freitag 02 April 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> [10-04-02 14:08]: > > On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 13:04:53 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > only to be sure to have understood everything correctly: > > > Suggestion is to create for example one root partition and a swap > > > partion. And I will create on big "rest of the disk"-partition. > > > The last one will be subdivided with LVM into portions as needed. > > > > Yes. > > > > > Since the last big partition is big due to physical reasons (not for > > > logical one): What will happen, if -- for example -- one portion will > > > be not unmounted cleanly and while booting/checking fails to recover? > > > Are all others damaged/lost? > > > > No, because the failure you describe is at the filesystem level. Even the > > volume containing that filesystem will retain integrity, only the > > filesystem itself will be corrupted. As you have left free space on the > > volume group, you can just create a new volume, format it and copy over > > everything you can recover from the broken filesystem before deleting it. > > Hi Neil, > > yes, sounds good, very good. > Last question: How heavy is the performance impact of such a setup ?
seriously lvm sounds nice. But it isn't. It easily breaks. You want a save setup? Go raid5 or raid6. As a bonus - you can get more space if you need it by just adding another disk. And you are not depending on some complex stuff to get it working.
