Until just recently, I couldn't increase the disk and filesystem of a server without waiting for weekly approval. And there had never been an instance of someon

Until just recently, I couldn't increase the disk and filesystem of a server without waiting for weekly approval. And there had never been an instance of someone using lvm breaking anything... Same with adding RAM (these are VMs). If you haven't read Pournelle much, he calls this the Iron Law of Bureaucracy.