[clug] partition tables in memory

[Andrew Pollock]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:15:35AM +1000, Kim Holburn wrote:
> 
> >This is why God invented LVM...
> 
> Don't get me started ;-)  Slowness in volumes mounted from an nfs 
> server using LVM may be a contributing cause of the problems with this 
> system that makes it require more memory.  In any case, God didn't 
> invent LVM, it's an attempt to fix underlying problems with hardware 
> and maybe a good idea, I always thought it was a good idea, it's just 
> the implementation is lacking something.  Adding yet more layers of 
> indirection doesn't always help, especially in a system with hundreds 
> of users.  Also there is no reason to use LVM on system partitions in a 
> system disk, it would just invite problems.  I'll shut up now.
> 

:-)

You mustn't have made Ted Ts'o's tutorial at linux.conf.au.

He said any problem can be solved in Computer Science with an extra layer of
indirection :-)

regards

Andrew