I also thought that LVM is unsafe for WAL logs and file system journals with disk write cache -- it doesn't flush the disk write caches correctly and build write barriers.
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Alan Hodgson <ahodgson@simkin.ca> wrote:
On Thursday 11 September 2008, david@lang.hm wrote: > while I agree with you in theory, in practice I've seen multiple > partitions cause far more problems than they have prevented (due to the > partitions ending up not being large enough and having to be resized > after they fill up, etc) so I tend to go in the direction of a few large > partitions.
I used to feel this way until LVM became usable. LVM plus online resizable filesystems really makes multiple partitions manageable.
