Re: lvm or btrfs? which is preferable (when, if applicable)

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On 20.01.2013, Ranjan Maitra wrote: 

> F18 appears to give two options for installing from scratch: lvm or
> btrfs. Which one is better from the point of view of the longer-term.

While btrfs is a filesystem, lvm is not. Therefore, you can't compare
them. See e.g. http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_lvm
 
> My current HDDs are ext4s. I switched then because I understood that
> this was the future.

What's the "future" to others must not neccessarily be the future to
you. You decide. EXT4 as filesystem is a good choice, and there are
some other good and stable filesystems out there (I've been using XFS
exclusively a very long time..).

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