On 7/31/07, Timothy Murphy tim@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.