Linux LVM - Is It Ready for Prime Time?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday June 12, 2003 @06:45AM from the hoping-it-won't-fall-over-under-load dept.

Deagol asks: "I'd like to replace our aging IBM server with a commodity solution (Linux, 3Ware cards, and lots of IDE drives). The main reason is price (the cost of 5 36GB SCSI disks for this sucker -- one of which died today -- could pay for the replacement server with 2TB of usable space after RAID-5. Being a huge fan of AIX's LVM,I've recently been playing with the Linux version of LVM. It's got all the right features (and even the ability to shrink logical volumes, a feature which AIX 4.3.3 doesn't have!), though the commands aren't as polished as the AIX counterparts. The big question for me is, will it stand up and be stable under heavy load, like the IBM does? Is anyone running Linux LVM on a 1TB+, 24/7 production machine?"

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Funny? Flaimbait? -- YOU DECIDE! by Asprin · 2003-06-12 07:18 · Score: 4, Funny

Well, according to SCO, the LVM support in Linux was added by IBM, so it's probably pretty good.

(/me ducks)

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Re:Linux LVM by bobbozzo · 2003-06-12 07:27 · Score: 5, Funny

And IBM's EVMS interface can run on top of LVM (http://evms.sourceforge.net/)
So the poster will be able to replace his costly IBM hardware with free IBM software. If that's not ironic, I don't know what is.

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