At which point you *won't* have an FC(n-1) system the same as your
previous one, since you will have lost all the various updates and
system changes you had made :)
I will be able to keep all the "system changes" I choose: updates can be
reapplied and a copy of cat /var/log/rpmpkgs will show me what else I
need to recover. Keeping my home dir and the bulk of /var will mean it
is of limited horror as well. However, I have been using Fedora since
before FC1, only once did I get into a pickle that required nukage, that
was trying to come off Development and back to the previous FCn.
I also have never had to completely abandon any RH/FC(n) release (I also
have been doing this for a while, since about RH8 on my current laptop I
think) but several times I have found that whilst FC(n) ran OKish, not
everything I needed worked straight away, such as X or wireless. The
point when the kernel went from 2.4.X to 2.6.X was particularly
interesting. This happened more in the early days when my hardware was
relatively new - not so now. However, I still find it VERY useful to be
able to live with 2 FC releases at the SAME time, whilst sorting out any
problems with the newer one.
I guess we just disagree. To me is plain obvious that multiple
partitions and LVM are good things, and I am glad it is by default
what is used by the installer. I guess you disagree and that fine,
good even, since if we all agreed on everything life would be much
duller :)
;-) I think you might come to disagree too if you get faced with a
broken drive and are kept away from the filesystem by an LVM wrapper
that is only there for reasons that are very esoteric indeed at that
moment.
I agree this is one potential downside to LVM, but personally I don't
think this con out-weights the many pros, IMHO. ( Also I suspect
eventually the tools will be developed to deal with this, as LVM becomes
more widely used, so this con will become a non-issue, but this is just
speculation... )
Each to his own, but hopefully there is food for thought on
this thread when it comes to giving advice to others.
Indeed. Let people read our comments and make up their own mind.
Chris
