Re: [Debian-User] Xen and LVM

2007-02-21 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 01:28:52PM -0700, Archive wrote: > So I am not arguing aginst LVM. Those that use it and recommend it keep > telling me I should plan on using it. I will do that if these same > people start explaining the features in way that makes sense to the > kinds of things I have

Re: [Debian-User] Xen and LVM

2007-02-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 01:28:52PM -0700, Archive wrote: > Information for the database server might involve languages and language > translation, and so on. So there is an obvious need for data > management, data bases, etc., but my question to all reading this email > is: "Why LVM" > > S

Re: [Debian-User] Xen and LVM

2007-02-18 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le dimanche 18 février 2007 21:28, Archive a écrit : [...] > but my question to all reading this email > is: "Why LVM" [...] The first two words : 1) merge 2) resize 1) Device block merging, everything, disks, RAID arrays 2) Online resizing of your logical volumes (slices of the previous merg

[Debian-User] Xen and LVM

2007-02-18 Thread Archive
I'm getting a lot of email on Xen which is nice so I am skipping names and just addressing issues. Activating and installing LVM on SuSE is made very easy because of SuSE's YACC user interface. A year ago LVM was becoming very popular and apparently touted the ability to unify diverse and diff