Re: The case against LVM

[Tony Nelson]

At 12:10 PM +0930 8/1/07, Tim wrote:
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> I'm curious about two things:  Wouldn't resizing LVM involve fragmenting
> the drive, in another way?  And, doesn't things like file quotas let you
> stop some users from using all available space?

Yes, but they're really /big/ fragments.  The default chunk size is 32 MB.
If you think about how typical *nix filesystems allocate storage, and
ext2/3 is typical, they already does somthing quite like this.