On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 12:28 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 12/31/2009 11:47 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > <snip> > > > 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 think what must be remembered here is that, while most of us Fedora > users generally work in a desktop environment (with GUIs and the lot) > and have little or no use for LVM, at some point Fedora "X" will become > Red Hat Enterprise Linux "X". > > A large number of RHEL sites _will_ make use of LVM (indeed, may even > require LVM). We are, remember, the experimental lab rats for the > eventual RHEL releases, so LVM must be tested as thoroughly as the rest > of the system. I for one am not testing LVM since I don't use it. I fact I go out of my way to remove it so I can have a system I understand. Those who don't have the skills to remove it aren't testing it in any meaningful sense either. That would seem to leave a fairly small subset of users, all of whom could certainly install it it they needed it and really would be testers in the proper sense of the word. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
