Ewan Mac Mahon wrote:
I've been using LVM on one computer for some time, without any real problems.
However, I've decided that it causes unnecessary complications, as some applications do not seem to accept the LVM devices, while I don't find any real advantages to compensate.
I wonder if that is the general experience?
Definitely an asset when connected to a SAN.
Why, as a matter of interest?
I think it depends more on the uses of the storage than the underlying technology, but it helps to have something with enough space to have some flexibility. I have a server with ~16Tb of storage that's shared amongst research groups in a university dept. Each group has their own filesystem, and LVM means that I can allocate space to whichever one particularly needs it without predicting up front who that will be.
I guess if I was in that position I would use LVM! But I'm just a common-or-garden Linux user ...
[Reminds me of the Thurber cartoon with a mad-looking girl saying, "Thank you God for making me normal".]