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Why does Vertica 6 not support LVM?

  • November 20, 2013
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Question:

The vertica 6.0 supported platforms document states:

"Note that Vertica 6 does not support Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM)."

Why is this?

Answer:

Our concern with LVM is file corruption. For Vertica database data and catalog disks, we do not test it and have concerns with (and have seen) file corruption.

There is a product feature request to support LVM but no target date.

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Tim_1
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  • December 20, 2013
I have just checked with Vertica Support, they have no record of a feature request for LVM. I have asked them to raise one.

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  • December 21, 2013
There is an existing feature request for this, but it has not been targeted for any release at the moment.