6 engineers on Hacker News describe using LVM first-hand: 0 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“LVM always brings me some trepidation as the result of various imploding RHEL5 machines”
regret · production · Thev00d00 · 2020-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“One of servers stopped booting because they changed version of LVM in STABLE DISTRO (think it was rhel6)”
neutral · production · ilyt · 2023-04-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“So we do LVM snapshots on the filesystem layer and back those up.”
neutral · production · kefka · 2017-06-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“all off the shelf, well understood tools: Debian Linux, DRBD, iSCSI, LACP, LVM, Puppet.”
neutral · production · mrmondo · 2015-03-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I know I had this problem, too.. many years ago when I switched from sparse files to LVM-backed storage.”
neutral · production · lsc · 2013-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?