[TriLUG] Disk Partitioning on-line

[Magnus Hedemark]

On Tuesday 30 September 2003 01:57 pm, Ron Joffe wrote:

> Sorry, but I just about blew my top on this post. My #1 biggest issue with
> RHAS is that it DOES NOT support LVM. I Use LVM on all of my SLES servers,
> and it is great, but Red Hat does not support LVM on RHAS. Oh sure you can
> install it, and get it to run, but it is not supported, and in a production
> environment, well you understand.

If it makes you feel any better, LVM is broken in Red Hat 9 under Red Hat's 
kernel.  You have to compile your own from kernel.org.  You can use RH's 
config file just don't use their patches.  The problem with RH's 
implementation is that you cannot mount snapshots.  D'oh!

RHEL isn't all it's cracked up to be.  I've been much happier with the 
consumer distro, with the understanding that I need to upgrade frequently.  
That's not a bad thing if you design your infrastructure right so that all of 
your critical data is on a file server and the workstations can be 
kickstarted once a year.

You end up with a small handful of "special case" systems that can be more 
easily dealt with when the patches stop flowing.  If you plan and maintain 
those right, they don't even need to be that difficult.  Keep all your data 
on a different partition, try to only use RPM's for installing new software 
(learn how to make RPM's for software that's not available in RPM form) and 
upgrading isn't as painful.