[ale] Question: to LVM or not LVM

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 19:08 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:

> 
> First, I would never boot dom0 off of LVM.  If you have a problem it
> makes it hard to fix.
> 
> Other than that LVM is a good fit with any VM if you are going to
> creating / deleting VM setups.  OTOH, if it is a one time thing you
> don't need it.
> 
> There are 2 big advantages to LVM; flexibility and snapshots.
> 


Is there any particular reason that LVM is required for FS snapshotting
under Linux?  My understanding of FreeBSD is that you can snapshot UFS2
drives in a regular partition, and that happens at the FS level.  Why
didn't Linux go that route?

    -- Mike

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