-----Original Message----- From: users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of suvayu ali Sent: 04 January 2011 00:53 To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: Partitioning questions On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Alex <mysqlstudent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> As for LVM it sits on top of all the physical volumes(that the kernel >> sees, /dev/sdX or in short the whatever you can list with fdisk -l). >> So the decision to use LVM is solely dependent on how flexible you >> want your disk partitioning setup to be. > > This would be to have the ability to resize partitions more easily, > correct? Is there really any benefit to doing this on a system with a > fixed number of disks? Well it all depends on how you intend to use your workstation. For example if your work involves using multiple distros or OSs then partitioning flexibility provided by LVM might be very beneficial. Or maybe if you use lots of virtual machines, then again a flexible disk management scheme might be helpful. On the other hand if your use case is more like, install once and work on one stable platform then you might find the flexibility features provided by LVM redundant. It is entirely dependent upon how you are going to use your workstation. It would be unwise to recommend anything without knowing the details of how you intend to work. However if you ask my personal opinion in a general scenario, I find having LVM on drives with lots of data more sensible. You never know when you might need to alter your partitioning scheme. Without LVM those situations might be difficult to deal with. In any case I don't see any performance issues because of LVM. But then, I'm not a power user either. ;) GL -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines I had many problems with software raids on Ubuntu Linux. Many times the the raid 1 was not detected, I was dropped in initram-fs due to some bugs in the software raid. mdadm became my best friend that day... I have decided to throw the towel and use hardware raids from now on. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
