On 7/31/07, Timothy Murphy <tim(a)birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
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 think it definitely can make rescues and recovery more difficult.
But, not impossible.
I thought it would simplify changing the sizes of partitions,
but as it happens I never need to do this
with today's enormous disks.
I think enormous disks are relative. For my desktop, I think I have
an enormous disk. For our image-processing servers, we don't have
enormous disks.
I think for many desktops, there isn't much of a need for multiple
partitions. But, if there's a marginal improvement, and you can
create abstractions that nicely bypass the downsides, its a good
thing.