On Saturday 05 December 2009, Timothy Murphy wrote: >Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> But the point is taken. There seem to be quite a few posts from folks >> that make their lives needlessly complex by mucking with the defaults >> and that ends up breaking something downstream. > >Are you saying that something is "broken downstream" if you don't use LVM? >With respect, that is nonsense. Folderol even. My objection to LVM is two fold. 1. It won't allow one to save things in the /home tree when doing an upgrade or re-install. I have an almost 10GB corpus of email, and several scripts that are needed for my daily operations that need to be preserved. LVM makes that impossible. 2. Its another point of failure that will indeed fail at some point. Every LVM install I've let anaconda do, has led to a failure and a total re-install at some point. The last was a drive failure, but I was able to rsync the important stuff to another fresh drive with 8 or 9 partitions I setup with gparted, moved the drive to sda, ran a fresh grub-install and everything is ok. The machine is noticeably faster too without the LVM crap between a button click and results. LVM is a solution looking for a problem I've never had, and its a solution that is way too easily contaminated IMNSHO. As for the subject line, you would have to be out of your mind to want to expose /boot to the various illnesses LVM can be infected with entirely too easily. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> <Espy> be careful, some twit might quote you <Espy> out of context... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
