On Sun, 24 Jun 2012, Nikolaos Milas wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Nikolaos Milas nmilas@noa.gr Subject: Re: [CentOS] partitions vs. LVs [was: Re: How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2]
On 24/6/2012 7:47 μμ, Keith Roberts wrote:
And what happens then in that situation - do you loose any more data than you would loose with 'standard' primary and extended logical partitions, or does using LVM help in recovering more data from a bad disk?
Read: http://serverfault.com/questions/279571/lvm-dangers-and-caveats
In a few words, if your hardware is high-quality, i.e. reliable enough so you don't expect problems, LVM adds important functionality and flexibility on servers.
In any case, the need for good backups should not be overlooked. For example, mondorescue allows both full and incremental backups, using LVM or not.
Thanks for that link Nick - I have bookmarked that. I'm looking for work as a Linux System Administrator so will check that out as well.
Kind Regards,
Keith
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