[CentOS] When should LVM be used?

On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 05:32 -0700, Drew wrote:
> > Yea the default works but how is it Plain Wrong?  If it was flat out
> > wrong then Upstream would not allow it.  Raid 1 disk array with one hot
> > spare on a hardware raid controller under a SAN server is what you
> > saying is wrong?  Case is, the array is not using /home or /var; were
> > only exporting nfs luns direct attached.  What on earth and why would I
> > want to have another drive for /var &/home in this case.  I'm just
> > asking but not arguing.  There are cases where it works exceptionally.
> > In fact my opinion is it works nice for newbies, untill they gets a lil
> > experience.
> 
> I'd still want a separate partition for /var for the SAN
> configuration. I've seen more then one machine brought to it's knees
> by overflowing log entries.
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I can't really argue that point there.  I've seen iptables do the same
as also auditd.  Carefulness in log watching is the key.  You check your
logs? 

John