"lost" my LVM volume

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 15:42 +0200, Colin Brace wrote:

> > What would you use instead? In what way would that survive the loss of a
> > drive?
> 
> Thinking aloud a bit more... what disadvantage would there be to
> ditching LVM and using symlinks instead? That is, one normal partition
> with both files and symlinks to files in other partitions?

You just have to plan ahead for the 'chunks' of space.  You can also
mount separate partitions directly into the locations where you
want the space if you know about it ahead of time.  The advantage
of LVM is just that you don't have to plan ahead - and the tradeoff
for splattering everything wherever it wants to go is that you
lose it all in one shot if any part fails.

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  Les Mikesell
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