[ale] Topic ideas for November meeting

[Phil Turmel]

+100!

I also always leave the bulk of the PVs unallocated until I know the
usage pattern.  And even then I leave some for emergency resizing.

On 11/02/2015 06:46 PM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> My rules on this are simple.
> a) ALWAYs use LVM on physical systems.
> b) NEVER use LVM on VM storage (inside the VM).
> 
> In 20+ years,  I've never been able to guess correctly the amount of
> storage needed for any specific partition. Being able to resize LVs
> without rebooting is FANTASTIC! That's just 1 little thing. There are
> many others. I love that formatting an LV with ext4 is basically
> instantaneous, regardless of the amount of storage.
> 
> In this I equate LVM == ZFS == BTRFS. Enhanced volume management is the
> goal. No need to be tied to some hardware limitation that MBR or even
> GPT force onto us.