[olug] Home file server - FreeNAS or Openfiler or ???

[Kevin]

A hundred times over? I know LVM is awesome, but I don't know that I'd go to
that extreme. I do appreciate the extra flexibility that it affords us, but
I don't think it's the be-all-end-all. If someone tries to give you
something like that, them either a fanboi or they're trying to sell it
something.

That said, given the situation here, is go the LVM route. It will let you
dynamically expand or reduce a filesystem.
On Mar 28, 2011 11:23 PM, "Christopher Cashell" <topher-olug at zyp.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Justin Reiners
> <justin.reiners at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have never played with lvm but have read horror stories about it. I
could
>> never make it work to my advantage plus I can't bare to lose data... I am
>> sure others use it and love it.
>
> LVM on Linux is awesome. As far as I'm concerned, any modern general
> purpose (non-embedded) Linux installation should be using it. The
> only partition on any box I install or run that isn't an LVM volume is
> /boot.
>
> It can be a little tricky and confusing for people who have never used
> it before, and it does add an additional layer of abstraction (and
> some would say complexity) to the disk layout, but the increased
> features and flexibility make up for any faults a hundred times over.
>
> --
> Christopher
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