On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 19:47 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Somewhat OT: IMHO one thing that makes installing Fedora harder than it > needs to be for the majority of users is the default use of LVM. I've > been using Fedora since before it was Fedora, and have *never* had a > situation in which LVM was any use to me. I understand the benefits it > brings to large installations with complex and varying storage > requirements, but that's not the case for most people and having to deal > with its highly domain-specific terminology turns it into a mental > obstacle that would be better avoided. I thought that both LVM technology and its benefits were widely understood by now. It has a lot of value even in a single-disk situation: you can shuffle space between filesystems, migrate data to a new disk, add space from a new disk to an existing filesystem, and create a copy-on-write snapshot of a filesystem -- and do most of that while the system is running. It's saved my bacon more times than I want to admit. Rather than remove LVM from the default installation, perhaps we need to do a better job of explaining what it does and how to use it effectively. -Chris -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
