trying to decide whether to use LVM or not

[Craig Hagerman]

On 5/6/07, nodata <lsof at nodata.co.uk> wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 05.05.2007, 03:53 -0600 schrieb CJ:
> > IMHO i would stick with LVM as it can be resized with out the risk of
> > loosing your files as compared to a physical file system.
>
> If you grow a standard filesystem to fill a disk, you will not lose
> files.
> >

If you use LVM to span a couple disks (make a more than one 'appear'
as a single hard drive) then if you have a failure or other problem
with one disk you will likely lose everything - even the stuff on the
good disc. THAT was the killer for me.

Craig