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[Robert Collins <robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10 February 2013 03:27, Davide Guerri <davide.guerri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Brady, thanks for the infos and for the bugzilla link.
>
> I made some tests and some some other researches about potential performance penalties of LVM. These seem not to be noticeable especially with recent linux versions. (please see for instance [1]).
>
> Now I'm even more curious about the choice of canonical: there must be a good reason for using such "rough" (pass me the term) filesystem resize technique over a more clean and practical lvm resize.

LVM is strictly more complexity: you still have to resize the block
device, and resize the filesystem metadata on top of it.

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Robert Collins <rbtcollins@xxxxxx>
Distinguished Technologist
HP Cloud Services