On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Andy Green wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > by the way, is there any reason *not* to encourage folks to use LVM > > rather than simple primary/extended/logical partitions? > > If the LVM header area in front of the actual filesystem gets > damaged, it ain't pretty. well, yes, there's that, but is the extra flexibility that comes with logical volumes worth the extra (albeit slight) risk? i have folks ask me my opinion occasionally (yeah, that's frightening), and i typically suggest that it's worth it to use LVM. but i'm always willing to listen to dissenting arguments. rday
