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Solutions

There are several solutions for volume management on Linux.

The Debian installer offers two choices: regular partitions (not very flexible) and LVM (which is good for standalone servers).

This page compares those options and some of the others.

Volume manager

Traditional partitioning

LVM

EVMS

CLVM (Redhat)

VxVM (Veritas)

Status in Debian

Full support (*fdisk utilities)

Full support

RFA after etch

?

n/a - commercial package

Debian installer

Full support

Full support

Cluster safe

Not safe to modify a partition table on a shared volume

Not safe to modify VG metadata while more than one node is attached

Yes

Yes

Yes

Bad block relocation

Yes

Snapshots

No

Yes

No

See also


CategorySystemAdministration | CategoryRedundant: merge to LVM