Allan Wind wrote: > On 2004-04-14T22:24:00+1000, Michael Bellears wrote: >> I also came across LVM >> (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html) >> - Can anyone comment on the effectiveness/stability and if it would >> be appropriate to my situation?..It certainly looks interesting. > > Installed LVM on my work-station years ago to allow my > paritions to grow as needed, but I have not had to use that > feature. LVM has been rock stable otherwise. I hit a small > problem in the boot scripts (already fixed, I think), > otherwise the upgrade from lvm1 to 2 just worked.
Hmm...just wodering how appropriate it is with a raid array... > > If you look at LVM, then you should also take a look at the > MD and EVMS as well, but I am not sure that these make that > much sense when you have a raid controller already. > > LVM and EVMS support snapshots which is an interesting (partial) > backups solution. > Ta - I'll have a look at them.. Regards, MB
