[Gllug] To partition or not to partition

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 08:16:55AM +0100, Nix wrote:
> > But without LVM, how do you achieve the luxury of having as many swap
> > partitions as you want, whenever you want them?
> 
> You don't need that. Swap files are exactly as fast (unless you are
> severely fragmented) and more convenient for ad-hoc addition.

Yes, but then you're just shifting the problem, because you're limited
to the space available in some existing partition.  Since I don't put /
on LVM, it makes sense for swap to go there.

> 
> > I used to work with a blithely unthinking clown who would set up LVM on
> > every server he configured - and then allocate *all* the space on the
> > VG, right from the start.  Point <-----  ----->>>> Him.
> 
> Well, I actually do something like that on most of the systems I go near
> (one VG per cluster of disks that can fail as a unit is my general rule,
> so I'll never get one failing because some of its PVs have died while
> others work, then LVM across them).

That would be a coherent strategy; he was just doing this with
non-raided local disks.  No gain at all.

-- 
Bruce

I unfortunately do not know how to turn cheese into gold.
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