LVM
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
1warn against
Dec 30, 2025first mention
Sep 11, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I use LVM on all my non-appliance Linux systems, [0] both servers and desktops.”
Linux user running servers and desktopson “Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead”
“Add a file inside ramdisk (i use /dev/shm) as LVM PV.”
Caveats and dissent
“everytime I saw lvm I inwardly sighed. The docs were terrible”
looked after storage arrays for VFX placeson “How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNA…”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead 1 mention
- FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued 1 mention
- How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS 1 mention
- curl > /dev/sda: How I made a Linux distro that runs wget | dd 1 mention
- The rsync algorithm (1996) [pdf] 1 mention
- FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service 1 mention
Data: lvm.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“I use LVM on all my non-appliance Linux systems, [0] both servers and desktops.”
“It's really not hard to setup LVM and Samba.”
“everytime I saw lvm I inwardly sighed. The docs were terrible”
“Add a file inside ramdisk (i use /dev/shm) as LVM PV.”
“I take an LVM snapshot of the VM”
“just relying on an LVM of the drives”