Re: [Devel] LVM partitioning configuration?

[Finn-Arne Johansen <faj@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:56:19PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> After several months in development, the automatic partitioning code
> in Skolelinux is now able to create LVM logical volumes.  This means
> we can install Skolelinux with /var/ and /usr/ in LVM.  There is only
> one small bug in the lvm10 package (#184358) blocking the transition,
> and I hope it will be solved soon.

One input on this subject: 
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:52:42PM +0200, Per Andreas Buer wrote:
> On Friday 13 June 2003 02:40 pm, you wrote:
> > hvorfor ikke legge /usr og /var på LVM ?
> 
> Erfaring tilsier at dette ikke alltid er lurt. F.eks. vil en oppgradering til 
> LVM2 være veldig vanskelig så lenge /usr og /var er utilgjengelige.
> Videre har jeg et par ganger sett at volumgrupper kan korumperes (seneste 
> idag, faktisk :) - og da er det veldig fint at maskinen kommer seg å langt 
> opp som mulig og får opp ssh og venner før det stopper.
> Hvis noe under /usr/ trenger mye plass så legger vi det ut på en volumgruppe.

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In Short (for our non-english speaking):
From experience it's not advisible to have sustem partition on LVM, as
LVM may get corrupted, and then you may very vell have a remote system
with ssh and other tools not availible. 
Also /usr and /var on LVM may make it difficult to switch to LVM2 (or
other Logical Volume Managers) later on. 

(guess that wasn't to short, but it was the essence)

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