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On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:20:02 +0200, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote about Re: |
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[gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem: |
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>A question to LVM: As much as I know, LVM combines several partition |
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>to one big partition, and if one partition fails, at least other |
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>others of that volume are damaged, too. |
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Disks fail. Sectors fail. Partitions do not fail. Logical volumes do |
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not fail. |
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If your disk fails you lose *all* partitions on it. |
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If some sectors fail, the file(s) backed by those sectors will be |
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corrupted -- regardless of filesystem type. If the defective sectors |
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back a filesystem's superblock or other infrastructure, you could well |
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lose the filesystem; but most modern filesystems keep redundant copies |
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of their infrastructure, and fsck can sometimes recover. |
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>What is the advantage of using LVM and several small partitions |
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>instead of one in the size of the sum of the others and not using |
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>LVM? |
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LVM provides immense flexibility in creating, deleting and expanding |
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filesystems. Once you get used to using LVM, which is not difficult, |
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you will never go back to partitions. |
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Regards, |
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Dave [RLU #314465] |
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dwnoon@××××××××.com (David W Noon) |
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