On 10/25/2013 10:33 AM, Lists wrote:
LVM2 complicates administration terribly.
huh? it hugely simplifies it for me, when I have lots of drives. I just wish mdraid and lvm were better integrated. to see how it should have been done, see IBM AIX's version of lvm. you grow a jfs file system, it automatically grows the underlying LV (logical volume), online, live. mirroring in AIX is done via lvm.