On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 14:05, Joe Hartley wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:32:26 -0600
> Jan Depner <eviltwin69@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > LVM can be bad news. I was using a logical volume manager under
> > HP-UX in the olden days and it can be a bitch to recover from errors.
> > Maybe things have changed recently though.
>
> I use LVM under HP-UX every day, and knock wood-grained formica, it's
> never given me a problem I couldn't deal with.
>
Fortunately, my office dumped all of our Linux, AIX, CLIX, Ultrix,
and most IRIX boxes and replaced them all with Linux PCs. Either RH ES,
Fedora Core 3, or Slackware. Pretty bizarre for DoD ;-)
> I was very impressed to find that the lvm stuff under HP-UX was
> contributed to Linux; very, very nice to use the same toolset across
> platforms.
>
> FWIW, I still make swap 2x the amount of RAM, even though it's often
> not necessary. Some habits die hard... like typing "sync" 3 times
> before giving the shutdown command!
LOL! Yeah, me too.
Jan
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