[ale] Topic ideas for November meeting

DJ-Pfulio djpfulio at jdpfu.com
Wed Nov 4 09:27:30 EST 2015


Back when I was new to LVM and did dumb things, lost 80% of my data by spanning
an LV across 3 disks, 1 disk failed. I didn't have "backup religion" back then.
Actually, that foolish mistake got showed me the light of backup religion. Since
then, I haven't lost a bit and if I'd had backup religion then, wouldn't have
lost a bit.

Like to think I'm smarter now.  Just because you "can" do something with LVM,
that doesn't make it a smart idea. The same applies for Unix in general.

Never had LVM have any corruption since then that wasn't traced back to a
failing Seagate drive. I don't buy seagate drives anymore.


On 11/04/2015 08:39 AM, Jim Lynch wrote:
> And lose all your data at the drop of a hat.
> 
> I have twice implement LVM while installing a new instance of Mint and Ubuntu
> and both times within a week, the volumes were corrupt. I had to pretty much
> start over with normal partitions.  No thanks.
> 
> Jim.
> 
> On 11/03/2015 08:17 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>> With LVM:
>> a)  You can resize individual LVs without adjusting other LVs (assuming you
>> have free space).
>> b)  You can add new PVs to extend the size of the VG without having to redo
>> anything.
> 
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