• fl42v@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Are there like any use-cases for it other than "well, I can add another drive to extend partitions whenever I want"? 'Cuz that's how it's often described (if at all*), and it doesn't really make much sense to me. Like, if I install on a laptop, it'll most often have just one drive, so lvm seems unnecessary, and if I make some server-like setup with multiple drives, I'd go with some kind of raid with redundancy instead of just stitching the drives together (or mb yolo and raid 0).

    * If I remember correctly, arch wiki for example, had it used in the partitioning guide for dm-crypt without explaining the benefits against just luksformating /

    • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nl
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      4 months ago

      and if I make some server-like setup with multiple drives, I’d go with some kind of raid with redundancy instead of just stitching the drives together (or mb yolo and raid 0).

      Server setups are usually virtual machines nowadays, with virtual disks (i.e. vmdk or qcow2 files in a storage pool). Stitching virtual disks together is valid in this case because redundancy is handled on another level, invisible to the vm.