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Re: [Xen-users] LVM?

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] LVM?
From: Marcin Owsiany <marcin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 13:11:50 +0100
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On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 01:16:07PM +0200, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm just starting with XEN and I've few basic questions.
> My last goal is build a system with dom0 CentOS-based and domU 
> CentOS-based too.
> 
> So...
> 
> 1) ¿Is LVM filesystem managment recommended? The CentOS partitioner uses 
> LVM by default, but I can disable it manually. ¿Offers LVM any 
> advantatge over tradictional partition system?

You definitely want LVM in dom0. Makes setting up filesystems for domUs
easy and convenient, with barely any overhead.

> 2) Same question about SELinux.

There is probably no point in having selinux in dom0, you should only
ever let root in there.

Marcin
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