Partitioning questions

[Alex]

Hi,

>> raid cannot be partitioned. lvm _is_ partitioning.
>
> That's somewhat misleading, I think.  As I interpret what I do to create
> software RAIDs with Fedora:
>
>      1. Partitioning is something that you do to a raw disk.

Or a RAID array when setting up LVM on top of it, correct?

>      3. Partitions or RAID devices can contain filesystems or LVM
>         physical volumes.

Yes, which is what I believe I added above.

So on a system where there will never be any disks added or partitions
resized, is the extra complexity (abstraction) worthwhile?

How about recovering from a disk failure? Does this layer above RAID
complicate the process of rebuilding an array?

Thanks,
Alex