On Friday, 03-01-2025 at 09:39 Michael Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 06:29:08PM +1100, George at Clug wrote:
> >LVM was introduced to allow extending storage by adding extra physical 
> >drives. Storage space is allocated as virtualised storage, i.e. Logical 
> >Volumes.
> 
> Yes and no. LVM was introduced to allow flexibility in how you assign 
> space. It lets you add drives, or migrate between drives, or resize a 
> volume, or make some volumes raid and some volumes not, all on the fly. 
> If you use something like btrfs or zfs, then you probably don't want to 
> add an LVM layer as it just complicates things in a redundant fashion. 
> If you have a set number of drives and partition the whole thing up as a 
> single volume, then LVM may not be worth the effort. If you have a 
> relatively dynamic environment, LVM is a big timesaver.
> 
> It can be somewhat complicated, and there are some gotchas in 
> configuring things like raid, so for someone trying to put together an 
> ordinary desktop that would be happy with one big partition and isn't 
> likely to do an upgrade that isn't a full replacement, I probably 
> wouldn't bother.

+1 

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