On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 19:39 +0100, Jarry wrote: > I remember having lvm2 a few years ago, and despite of that I could not > extend any partition, which was being used. What is then lvm2 good for, > if I can not extend partitions on-the-fly? I can not unmount /usr before > extending... This is filesystem (and OS) dependent. I use XFS for all my partitions, because one of the nice thing about it is, that it can grow filesystems when they are mounted. I think this is possible with ext3 too, but I did not test it. Even under heavy load it is a matter of seconds to grow a XFS FS in a LVM.
> And one more counter-argument: with traditional partitions I can select > where a certain partition is (physically). Those partitions accessed > frequently I put to the beginning of the disk with higher transfer-rate. > In my case, it makes quite difference: In my experience more (human and up-) time is lost in backup-reboot-repartition-format-restore-reboot than in some iowait. Bye, Daniel -- PGP key @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de/pks/lookup?search=0xBB9D4887&op=get # gpg --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net 0xBB9D4887
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