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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>>Just curious, why have you stopped using LVM?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Simply for ease of maintenance: some recovery and backup utilities like clonezilla can't work with LVM. And because the same names for volume groups are used for each centos install, so trying to attach a drive or volume to a new system for rescue causes conflicts unless you take steps and use unique names from the start. (Although I hear that newer versions of centos/RH will create unique names for you)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>As I said, LVM works fine for VMs and can be used slice up a volume for guests to be used as a true block device. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>By the way, a true block device means a raw partition on the disk is given to the guest to format and use as its own - so no existing file system is present. It's almost like giving a guest its own drive to work from, and should operate at the same native speeds as the host. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div></div></body></html>