EVMS, LVM, LVM2, XFS, ext3 on FC3

David Kewley kewley at cns.caltech.edu
Tue Oct 5 21:34:13 UTC 2004


John Hearns wrote on Tuesday 05 October 2004 10:37:
> On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 17:38, David Kewley wrote:
> > I'm looking at building several multi-TB arrays in an academic
> > research environment.  So far I've been heading toward FC3 (or
> > possibly RHEL4 when it's released), EVMS, and XFS.
>
> Having provided RAID arrays for scientific researchers,
> I'd say run with LVM/LVM2, I have used it an I'm happy.

Thanks for the datapoint, John!  Have you been running with LVM2 in 
production?  What kernel, both version and supplier?  How big is your 
biggest volume?  What filesystem(s) on LVM(2)?  Any significant 
gotchas?

Thanks,
David




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