[CentOS] partitions vs. LVs [was: Re: How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2]

Benjamin Franz

jfranz at freerun.com
Sun Jun 24 13:41:58 UTC 2012


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.

-- 
Benjamin Franz



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