[clue-tech] Custom partition scheme?

[Nate Duehr]

  On 9/21/2010 11:02 AM, David L. Willson wrote:
> There are three reasons to use LVM:
>
>   - Resizing of logical volumes (partition equivalents)
>   - Creation of snapshots (partition-image equivalent, with no down time)
>   - Addition and removal of storage devices
>
> All those things can be done with the server hot and loaded.

... IF and only IF you ALSO bought hot-swappable drive hardware, and 
trust it won't crash the box, even when the OS is in trouble after some 
strange thing the previous drive did as it keeled over dead.

... or you have a bunch of empty disks installed and spinning all the 
time, creating heat, wasting money.

At today's disc prices, LVM is a problem looking for a solution... 
unless the budget is way below where it should be for a business server.

And it's a solution that adds risk, however small, but it's cumulative, 
right?  Nothing is bug-free, including LVM.

(For home stuff, sure... use LVM... why not?  Backups are higher 
priority than LVM, that's for sure...)

Nate