on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:19:10AM +0200, Toens Bueker (toens.bueker@e-trend.de) wrote:
> Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org> wrote:
>
> > My partitions are filling up and I need to start juggling parts of
> > my filesystem. Although some of one disk is under a volume manager
> > (LVM via EVMS), I don't want to fiddle with it. Mostly this is
> > because I don't want to extend the container to include a second
> > disk, thereby doubling my chances of disaster and forcing me to keep
> > the disks together.
>
> It is generally not a good idea to use LVM directly on top of a disk.
> You always should use LVM on top of a RAID-System. If you use xfs as
> your filesystem you can even extend your partitions while they are
> mounted.
What's your basis for these statements? I've not heard this before.
Peace.
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