On Sat, 2013-01-19 at 19:00 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I move to lvm, or leave things as is, to ext4?
LVM is a container, if you like. It can span multiple disk drives, so they appear as one huge drive. And it can be expanded across even more drives, if you add them, in the future. That gives you the advantage of what appears to be a huge drive. It gives you the disadvantage that a failure of any drive could result in the total loss of everything on all drives. If you only have one drive, and if you never intend to try that spanning trick, I recommend that you do not use LVM. It just adds yet another problem to a computer system. Now, for ext4. It's a filing system. The partitions inside an LVM can use ext4, and the partitions inside a single hard drive partitioned in the traditional way can use ext4. If you're happy with ext4, don't want to try another filing system, stick with it. If considering another filing system, think about why: Is it faster? Are their other advantages? Are their any advantages over your current one? And think about why not: Is there any point in changing? Are there disadvantages? Are there any known flaws? Are there recovery tools for dealing with lost, or accidentally deleted data. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
