On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 09:15:42 -0400 Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2015 05:35:49 Reco wrote: > > But doing it correct way would probably require using LVM > > (snapshots), and LVM is one of those things that are either used > > from the start, or not used at all. > > Tried twice back when it was all the rage when fedora was fairly > new. Both installs self-destructed in under 2 weeks. I've no clue if > its ready for "prime time" today or not. But haveing been twice > burnt, I am wary and avoid it. And of course I eventually got tired > of being used for a guinea pig as its survival rates were relatively > poor.
This ties in nicely with something I'm sitting here and wondering about right now. I'm preparing to upgrade my home server to Jessie today, and at the same time I want to set up something like LVM on the system disk (2x250G in mdadm RAID1). The main reason is that I want snapshots, and a secondary, nice-to-have-but-not-essential reason is future resizing of volumes. The alternative to LVM would be btrfs, which would give me RAID1 and snapshots, plus subvolumes. I am familiar with mdadm, but I am *not* familiar with LVM or btrfs in any way. What would the experts here recommend? I've been searching for a while now, but I haven't found anything recent that applies to both LVM and btrfs. I know btrfs is a moving target, is it stable enough to use for both it's RAID functionality and the rest? Or would I be better off with mdadm and LVM? Which is better to work with? If anyone would like to share their experiences, I would really appreciate it. TIA, Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive."
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