Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

[Zac Slade <krakrjak@volumehost.net>]

On Friday 24 February 2006 22:13, John Jolet wrote:
> okay, i'll rephrase.... being an old aix hand... with the (possible)
> exeption of reiser.... I, personally, would not trust any filesystem
> to resize without being unmounted.  but then, compared to the aix
> lvm, which can be resized with oracle accessing at full speed, linux
> lvms are just barely getting to what I'd call "production ready".
> interesting to see that we're moving in an online-resizable direction
> on linux. :)
What an unenlighten troll.  I have plenty of experience with AIX's volume 
manager.  LVM2 can stand up to it any day.  As a matter of fact Linux's LVM 
is about to completely surpass what is available in AIX.  LVM2 can do cluster 
locking and management.  You can use LVM2 with Multipathing tools just as you 
can under any commercial Unix.  LVM2 is more than ready for prime time as can 
be seen by looking at RHEL and SLES distributions.

Linux is not a toy and neither is LVM2.  It can be used as a toy or a learning 
device, but it is not relegated to the closet of geeks.  And don't get me 
started on AIX if you don't happen to have the OnlineJFS sets installed.  
Also the draconian having to resize the filesystem by calculating the number 
of 512 byte blocks in the filesystem.

Do your homework please.  Just because you've dealt exclusively or extensively 
with one flavor of *nix doesn't mean that others aren't up to the task.  And 
just because it's IBM's Unix doesn't make it more or less ready for the 
enterprise, it just makes it proprietary.  You'd do well to judge based on 
features, capabilities and the completeness of the tools.
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