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- From: lucien@watson.ibm.com (Lucien Van Elsen)
- Subject: Re: disk space
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- In-Reply-To: mcbryde@navier.math.uh.edu's message of 22 Jan 1993 04:29:45 GMT
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:45:41 GMT
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- mcbryde@navier.math.uh.edu (Jack Mcbryde) writes:
- >
- > This is for lots of people out there. Unless you want to do stuff with things
- > like raw partitions there is *no* reason to screw around with logical volumes
- > in order to create/enlarge filesystems. (Except to change the maximum number
- > of physical partitions.) All it does is mess people up.
-
- Though I agree with the general idea of you posting, this may be overstating
- it; there are several good reasons why administrators may want to explicitly
- create the lv first, and then create the filesystem within it. By creating
- the lv separately, you have better control of the issues that affect
- performance (physical location of logical volumes, write scheduling, etc.)
- and reliablity (replication, write-verification, etc.) Though the defaults
- are reasonable for most filesystems, there are definitely some cases where
- they aren't optimal.
-
- -Lucien
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