[ale] ISCSI array on virtual machine

[Derek Atkins]

I'm also learning the hard way that not having used LVM means I can't make a snapshot to stabilize the file system during a backup.

-derek

Sent on my mobile. Please forgive any typos.

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From: "James Sumners" <james.sumners at gmail.com>
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
Subject: [ale] ISCSI array on virtual machine
Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2016 3:07 PM

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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