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What about LVM?

Posted May 27, 2008 18:06 UTC (Tue) by shapr (guest, #9077)
In reply to: What about LVM? by snitm
Parent article: Barriers and journaling filesystems

Sad, I now want to rip out my LVM setup and go back to straight-up ext3.

I've had some random unexplained file corruption at power-loss, even with safety-first
features of ext3 enabled. I wonder ext3 on LVM would explain it.

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What about LVM?

Posted May 27, 2008 19:32 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

LVM without snapshots only uses the linear target.