[Gllug] To partition or not to partition

[Bruce Richardson]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 03:43:47PM +0100, - Tethys wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote:
> 
> > LVM gives you more options, like live pvmove-ing your storage over to
> > a new hard disk, straddling an LV across disks, and coming soon the
> > ability to live mirror a logical volume on secondary storage.
> 
> And this is why it's worth having, even on a single user desktop.
> SMART monitoring means that for some failure modes, you get enough
> advance warning to pvmove data from a failing disk onto a new one
> before it dies. That's invaluable, and has saved my bacon several
> times.

Absolutely.  Earlier this year, an unfortunate combination of power and
disk failures forced me to migrate the (mirrored) filesystems on two
machines to new disks.  pvmove made that simple; I was able to get on
with other work on the computers while the data was moved on the fly.  A
little extra forethought on these matters can be a lifesaver.

-- 
Bruce

It is impolite to tell a man who is carrying you on his shoulders that
his head smells.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 204 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/attachments/20101011/25a49c90/attachment.pgp>
-------------- next part --------------
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug