[sllug-members]: LVM and RAID

[Adam Barrett]

Does anyone here have experience in creating a Virtual Machine (VMWare
or other) with multiple drives for testing and playing with RAID and
LVM? Is it worth the time to practice in a virtual instance than on a
physical machine? I have spare hardware, but if I can just test on a
VM on my laptop, that would be handy.

On Jan 29, 2008 1:03 PM, Andrew Johnson <andrewjohnson at mail.weber.edu> wrote:
> On 1/29/08, Lamont Peterson <lrp at xmission.com> wrote:
> > I've been using LVM on all my notebooks and desktops for over 4 years now
> > because it makes things *so* convenient to manage space.  I've been using it
> > on servers since 1999 (IIRC).  I fully recommend using RAID when you need it
> > and that everyone should always use LVM on every box you build (except for
> > certain embedded applications, of course).
>
> To be fair, LVM can cause interop problems if you're dual-booting, so
> I tend to avoid it in that case.  I've also had problems with distro
> installers, upgraders, and even a LiveCD that went looking for EVMS
> and locked up when then found LVM VGs instead.
>
> Otherwise, as Lamont points out, LVM is the way to go.
>
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