[H-GEN] Hardware Upgrade

[David Jericho]

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On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 09:55:24PM -0500, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:
> Excluding directories?  Ffft.  It's much simpler to tell the software
> not to cross mount points, and then prune as necessary. 

My personal experience is that telling software not to cross mount
points is quirky. It works sometimes, and not others. 

> (Actually, LVM is very handy in that it'll give you a snapshot on a
> per-partition basis if you ask it to, as well, so you can be assured
> of not getting inconsistent data, memory permitting.)

>From all reports and experiences, at the moment, using the snapshot
feature of LVM can be more problematic than using dump. A workmate
here has a large interest[1] in LVM, and as such plays with it a lot
at home where he has several hundred GB, and is always telling me how
he managed to destroy the FS once again by using the snapshot feature.
I've never been once game to try the snapshot feature on any of the 
machines here at work.

Having said that, LVM itself is wonderful and I do wish I had the ability 
to join in the development at the code level. An entire system which resides 
on LVM can make life very easy when requirements change.[2]

[1] I believe the word fetish maybe more apt.
[2] Not every company can afford a new machine for every new task
requirement.

-- 
David Jericho
Senior Systems Administrator, Bytecomm Pty Ltd


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