The case against LVM

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Rick Stevens wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 15:26 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > Karl Larsen wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > >     There are issues about how you partition a giant hard drive like
> > > that. I forget just how many partitions your allowed but it is small
> > > compared to the size. I guess your the IT expert and you have REAL
> > > Experience to back your support for LVM.
> >
> > Umm, AIUI the standard way of partitioning drives has no limit
> > on the number of extended partitions one may create.
>
> Uhm, not exactly.  You get up to four primary partitions, one of which
> can be an extended partition.  Inside that extended partition you can
> have as many "logical" partitions as you wish.

i'm not convinced of that infinite limit:

http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=150073

anyone want to clarify that?

rday
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