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Richard Fish <bigfish <at> asmallpond.org> writes: |
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> AFAIK, yes. LVM2 would be the "non-traditional" partitioning scheme |
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> of choice for Linux. Plus, you can grow the filesystem to a second |
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> array later if you need more space. |
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> But, I have no experience with filesystems larger than 0.5TB, so I |
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> cannot say what the _best_ method is. LVM2 would just be my first |
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> choice. |
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Why would this be better than EVMS? Note, I'm not challenging what |
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you are saying, just curious to learn the advantages or |
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limitations of LVM2 versus EVMS? |
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http://evms.sourceforge.net |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_setup_evms |
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I only ask these questions, as I'm researching how to use either LVM |
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or something to manage a very large file sytem (T bytes) of |
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video and several databases. |
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James |
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