> > I am just curious the reasoning behind using lvm as the default partitioning method in the anaconda version shipped with FC3. > > > > I have been looking through the change logs and past mailing lists, but I have not seen any reasons or comments indicating the whys... > > Well I got to this party after the decision to use LVM for everything > had been made, but I can share my reasons for why I think it's a good > idea. > > First, it frees us from a lot of the disklabel constraints. We don't > really have to worry about four partition limits and extended partitions > and all that junk if we can just make one big LVM blob and cram a bunch > of partitions in there. So that makes it more flexible for people who > want the really crazy partitioning schemes. > > Second, it's nice to have fewer cases to deal with in the partitioning > code. If we know everyone's got LVM, it means there's less we have to > take into account. Of course right now, everyone doesn't have LVM. But > hopefully years down the road, everyone will. :) > > There are probably more but these are the two that immediately popped > into my head. Personally, I find LVM to be more flexible and getting > used to it now on my own machines means I'll know how to use it when I > finally get that giant disk array set up at home. Thanks for that Chris... I have been reading a bit more about it (my previous usage of lvm has be nil) and can see its strong points. I have more questions about lvm, but I think they are OT on this list. Thanks again Mike
