Am 05.03.2012 00:35, schrieb Peter Larsen: > We're not longer using legacy grub. Even with F14 we shipped Grub2 (it > may even have been included earlier - not sure). We've had this ability > for a long time now. uninteresting in this context you shipped and it was good to have a sepearte /boot you and i do not know the future and somewhere in time there will be ext5 and GRUB2 not support it who knows? i am one of the people not reinstall their systems because i am moving around disks between new and old and the most interesting ones re even not physicasl >> as i installed my systems with a 500 MB /boot there >> was no imagination that ext4 can be relevant in the >> future, but as it was released it was easy to use >> it for system/data > > And the fact that we increased the requirement from 200 to > 500MB never caused you issues? which requirement? /dev/sda1 ext4 189M 40M 150M 21% /boot 2.6.42.7-1.fc15.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Feb 21 01:22:05 UTC 2012 well, majority of my machines are VMware ESX guests /boot is there even a own disk so increase what you like * shutdown * klick -> drag * gparted * upgrade > So because of this uncertainty, you want to pick the least flexible > setup as default and "not dumb"? Seems to me, that it should be the > other way around. /boot is for the fucking bootloader and the kernel this is not for a entire operating system so if this needs ever more than 500 MB some poor people made big mistakes >> but you can setup your systems with the expierence >> of the past or ignore it and hope all will be fine > > I'm not ignoring anything. You seem to be though. i am the one who upgraded his last machine from Fedora 5 until Fedora 14 and maintaining 20 servers originally installed with F9, currently on F15 >> i chose smater setups and ignoring defaults made >> for "click, next,c lick, next" users > > You've yet to explain why it's smarter to be static and unflexible, on > top of not having the availability of snapshot backups and other > features provided by LVM. because my snapshots are mostly done on VMware ESX level and on workstations i am pretty fine with my RAID10, complexer things are even their in virtual machines because the have much more snapshot/backup/restore capabilities and yes on the workstation the disks are flexible by size /dev/md2 ext4 3,7T 1,6T 2,1T 44% /mnt/data
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