[linux-lvm] LILO configuration for LVM "boot" filesystem

Steven Lembark lembark at wrkhors.com
Thu Jun 7 21:37:26 UTC 2001


> Tell me, what is wrong with having /tmp as a mount point
> for a LV?

LV are generally slower than other types of storage.  Since the
boot partition is generally cyl 0 it's on the fastest storage
available (short of tmpfs).  

Another approach is to mirror-mount the /var/tmp and /tmp onto
a single volume.

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