Re: LVM in default filesystem layout

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----- Original Message -----
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Lars Seipel <lars.seipel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 04:24:13PM -0400, Christian Schaller wrote:
> >> If we haven't done so already I think we should since we don't really have
> >> any UI tools for editing LVM partitions
> >
> > Palimpsest/gnome-disk-utility used to have LVM support. What happened to
> > it?
> 
> blivet-gui works OK for some bits of LVM, it's a frontend for the same
> library used in anaconda, it depends on what functionality the
> Workstation people expect though, it doesn't for example support the
> use of things like LVM snapshots, roll back of snapshots etc.

On a workstation or laptop, LVM's main use is to encrypt the disks. Ext4 gained
support for that, which could allow us to encrypt by default, without the need
for LVM at all:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217517
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