Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Extra benefits of LVM: You won't need this right now for your simple > desktop with one drive, but it's good to know what else LVM can do: > > Snapshots.
Well, I "disagree". This feature is also very useful on a single drive setup. Reason why: Backup. You can easily create snapshot(s) and then backup those snapshot volumes. And at the same time, you can keep on working on the normal filesystems. > This is a lifesaver if your job is to perform backups of 4TB databases > that can never be taken down for backups. IMO it's also good for smaller setups. For huge setups, it's sort of a must, exactly as you wrote. > If you need any more convincing, IBM mainframes and HP machines running > HP-UX have required you to use LVM for years now - you can't get to the > disks without using LVM. Not true. With HP-UX 11.11, you could also choose *NOT* to use LVM. But nobody in a right state of mind would do that :) (Well, generally speaking at least. There will certainly be some corner cases, I suppose.) Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
