[linux-lvm] lvm/fs issue

[Rosenstrauch, David]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-lvm-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:linux-lvm-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Kevin P. Fleming
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 12:11 PM
> To: LVM general discussion and development
> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm/fs issue
> 
> 
> Rosenstrauch, David wrote:
> 
> > Although I currently have only 1 logical volume, and all my 
> PV's are currently
> > a part of it, that's not necessarily how things will always be.  I
> > intentionally partitioned most of my disk into ~2GB chunks 
> like this, so that
> > I can have a pool of 2GB PV's which I can throw at 
> whichever LV needs it, and
> > thereby rid myself of future space constraint issues I've 
> run into in the past
> > with traditional partitioning.
> 
> But that's the whole point of LVM in the first place!
> 
> If you make a single PV, with a VG including it, you can 
> carve it up and 
> re-carve it up however you like, for whatever LVs you have or 
> create in 
> the future. You can even _shrink_ LVs and make the space available to 
> other LVs, which you cannot do with partitions.


Hmm.  I guess I didn't quite understand that then.  I knew that you could have
a LV that spans multiple PV's (which is what I figured was the whole point of
LVM - you could just keep throwing more PV's at an LV as your space needs
grew), but I didn't know that you could have a PV that gets split across
multiple LV's.  I guess I just assumed (don't know why) that each PV had to be
dedicated to 1 and only 1 LV.

Thanks for setting me straight then.  No real big problem for me the way I
have it now, though.  I guess I might suffer a little bit performance-wise,
but this is my desktop development machine, not a server, so no huge loss.
Good to have my facts straight for the future, though.

Thanks again,

DR

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