Robert Nichols wrote: > Ross Walker wrote: > >> Since you don't know if LVM has a recovery path how can you imply it >> doesn't? >> > > I've seen plenty of evidence that tools for LVM recovery are lacking. > I see postings from people asking about recovery of damaged LVM > volumes and not getting any reasonable answers about how to repair. > This might help in future. http://anthonydawson.thelasis.com/LVRecovery/index.htm > Or, complexity of dealing with things like duplicate volume group names > when physically moving disk drives. Conventional partitioning works > just fine for me, and I'm confident that I can handle just about any > situation that crops up. I don't need an additional layer of > complexity. > > Which is why I do not use default names when creating volgroups and logvols.