On 06/24/2012 11:21 AM, ken wrote: > On 06/24/2012 09:41 AM Benjamin Franz wrote: >> On 06/24/2012 12:05 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> And what do you do when this LVM goes corrupt in about a month? I've >>> had it self destruct on me twice. I hate it when that happens. >> I would look for some other issue like bad hardware. Over the last >> several years I've routinely used LVM for pretty much everything and >> have never had it go corrupt on me except when there was a hardware >> failure involved. My standard buildouts use LVM over RAID. > Gene, > > Yeah, the problem is more than likely in your hardware. I've used it on > hundreds of machines and since 1999 and never had a problem traceable to > LVM. On the other hand, I've seen a lot of disks go bad. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > What I don't like about LVM. at least on a personal system, is it obfuscates where things are if you have multiple underlying drives. You can't just do a df -h and see what the physical layout really is. I guess there are some pvdisplay and lvdisplay commands that can show this - but I always have to look them up and when things go kaflooey and your system isn't working then what - bring out the rescue cd and hope you can figure it out. -- Stephen Clark *NetWolves* Director of Technology Phone: 813-579-3200 Fax: 813-882-0209 Email: steve.clark at netwolves.com http://www.netwolves.com