The case against LVM

[Ed Greshko]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I've been using LVM on one computer for some time,
> without any real problems.
> 
> However, I've decided that it causes unnecessary complications,
> as some applications do not seem to accept the LVM devices,
> while I don't find any real advantages to compensate.

What applications, for example?

> I thought it would simplify changing the sizes of partitions,
> but as it happens I never need to do this
> with today's enormous disks.
> 
> I wonder if that is the general experience?

Works fine for me.  I moved to LVM on all my systems and haven't looked back.