Re: reiserfs or ext3 on lvm?

ajp wrote:
A quick test using the VM seems to be Ok - have you (or anyone else) hit any
problems with this?

I have had problems with LVM in that I was unable to recover from a
chrashed system. Hard reboot and fsck did not work. I now do not use LVM
anymore. The disadvantage of having one partition with many points of
failure does not make it worthwhile for me to run LVM.

houghi
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