On 06/24/2012 12:24 PM, ken wrote: > > On 06/24/2012 12:04 PM Steve Clark wrote: >> 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 > It helps during their creation, rather than just accepting the defaults, > to give the LVs meaningful names. But even if you don't: > > # df -H > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-lvroot > 31G 12G 18G 39% / > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-lvtmp > 195M 55M 131M 30% /tmp > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-lvvar > 21G 1.2G 19G 6% /var > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-lvhome > 185G 40G 136G 23% /home > /dev/hda3 518M 46M 446M 10% /boot > > > Where's the difficulty? > What are the underlying actual physical devices? -- Stephen Clark *NetWolves* Director of Technology Phone: 813-579-3200 Fax: 813-882-0209 Email: steve.clark at netwolves.com http://www.netwolves.com