On Sunday, 6 January 2019 22:13:31 GMT Dale wrote: > Even from my simple setup, LVM adds more benefits to managing data and > drives than it does risk. The biggest thing, placing blame where it > lies. Blaming LVM for a drive dying is placing the blame on something > that wasn't the root of the problem. The dying drive was the problem, > using LVM or not.
He isn't doing that, though. As I read it, he recounted the tale of recovering data from a failed drive, then imagined how much worse it would be if it were in an LVM setup. [Reported speech and mixed-up tenses causing me a problem here...] Thanks Gevisz, that was interesting. What we used to call a cautionary tale. -- Regards, Peter.
