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On Sunday, 6 January 2019 22:13:31 GMT Dale wrote: |
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> Even from my simple setup, LVM adds more benefits to managing data and |
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> drives than it does risk. The biggest thing, placing blame where it |
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> lies. Blaming LVM for a drive dying is placing the blame on something |
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> that wasn't the root of the problem. The dying drive was the problem, |
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> using LVM or not. |
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He isn't doing that, though. As I read it, he recounted the tale of recovering |
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data from a failed drive, then imagined how much worse it would be if it were |
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in an LVM setup. [Reported speech and mixed-up tenses causing me a problem |
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here...] |
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Thanks Gevisz, that was interesting. What we used to call a cautionary tale. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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