On 17/12/2022 20:03, Mark Knecht wrote:
I'm just asking what's the purpose of doing LVM, or your
suggested layering, specifically on a storage pool for a
home user like Dale? That's the part I don't understand,
especially for a new NAS user like Dale?
From my POV, snapshots, in-place short-term backups, it's just flexible.
Actually, my main use of lvm is on my system partition - take a
snapshot, emerge @world, make sure everything is okay ...
What I *thought* I wanted it for was my /home partition - my wife is
forever losing stuff, getting muddled and what have you. But I don't
think snapshotting would actually protect against what she does :-(
But the ability to snapshot anything where you think you might be doing
something dangerous is just great - it means you can revert a disaster...
And below that, integrity/raid? Well raid protects against a drive
failure, integrity protects against disk corruption. They're all
unlikely events, but I've got loads of disk space, a powerful system,
and I don't stress it, so I've got power to spare for it.
Cheers,
Wol
