Richard Fish <bigfish <at> asmallpond.org> writes:


> AFAIK, yes.  LVM2 would be the "non-traditional" partitioning scheme
> of choice for Linux.  Plus, you can grow the filesystem to a second
> array later if you need more space.

> But, I have no experience with filesystems larger than 0.5TB, so I
> cannot say what the _best_ method is.  LVM2 would just be my first
> choice.

Why would this be better than EVMS?  Note, I'm not challenging what
you are saying, just curious to learn the advantages  or 
limitations of LVM2 versus EVMS? 

http://evms.sourceforge.net

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_setup_evms

I only ask these questions, as I'm researching how to use either LVM
or something to manage a very large file sytem (T bytes) of
video  and several databases.

James

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