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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 16/05/2014 12:04, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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> > Whatever gets rid of LVM is good on my book. I've never understood why |
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> > people uses it, and in my experience it only brings headaches. |
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> > Besides, I've heard from many people that btrfs is the way to go in |
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> > the future. I'm not ready to make the change yet, but I will at some |
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> > point. |
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> LVM is an excellent solution for what it was designed to do, which is to |
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> deal with stuff like this: |
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> Oops. I misjudged how big /var/log needed to be and now I need to add |
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> 50G to that partition. But it's sda6 and I have up to sda8. Arggghhhhh! |
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> Now I need 5 hour downtime to play 15-pieces with fdisk. |
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> LVM makes that 2 commands and 12 seconds. Yes, it's a bit complex and |
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> you have to hold the PV/VG/LV model in your head, but it also *fixes* |
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> the issue with rigid MSDOS partition style. |
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> Modern filesystems like ZFS and btrfs sidestep the need for LVM in a |
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> really elegant and wonderful way, none of which changes the fact that |
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> ZFS/btrfs weren't around when LVM was first coded. |
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So is btrfs ready for production -- all the tools work, etc. to the |
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level that the ext2/3/4 work? Also, what kernel do you need for this to |
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function -- and last question, how to convert an lvm volume to btrfs, or |
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do you just have to make some space somewhere and copy the files? |
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So far, I have liked lvm, what's the advantage of btrfs over lvm? |
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Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: |
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How do |
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you spend it? |
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John Covici |
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