[ale] ISCSI array on virtual machine

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Thu Apr 28 15:07:06 EDT 2016


On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Todor Fassl <fassl.tod at gmail.com> wrote:
> But, Jim, what I'm asking is why bother carving it up at all? What benefit
> is there in that?

That's my view as well. But my director thinks otherwise. So I do it
to keep him from hounding me about it.

> I get that if you use LVM and ext4 file systems, you can resize the
> partitions. But if I made the whole 8T one big partition, I'd never have any
> reason to resize it.

Never say never. Increasing that 8TB to 16TB is easy with LVM. It's
not so easy if you decided you didn't need LVM at the start.


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