On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 02:22 +0100, Ewan Mac Mahon wrote: > I have a server with ~16Tb of storage that's shared amongst research > groups in a university dept. Each group has their own filesystem, and > LVM means that I can allocate space to whichever one particularly > needs it without predicting up front who that will be. It lets me add > more storage without disrupting the logical structure (e.g. no > splitting groups between /mnt/olddisk and /mnt/newdisk and finding > that the group that needs more space is on the disk that doens't have > any), and it means I can easily allocate space to temporary systems > and claim it back afterwards for general use. > > That machines predecessor didn't use LVM and it was a nightmare to > admin with free space fragmented all over the place. I wouldn't go > back. I'm curious about two things: Wouldn't resizing LVM involve fragmenting the drive, in another way? And, doesn't things like file quotas let you stop some users from using all available space? -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
