Re: The case against LVM

[Charles Curley]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 11:03:26AM -0400, Michael H. Semcheski wrote:
> On 7/31/07, Timothy Murphy  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.

Agreed. You need a rescue/recovery disk that supports LVM, like
finnix. I had lots of fun adding LVM support to my script. LVM is not
documented at the level I needed, so it was a lot of reading the code,
reverse engineering, and "by guess and by golly!".

http://www.charlescurley.com/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO.html