On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 10:56 +1000, Chris Jones wrote: > On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 01:14 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > LVM actually slows down boot considerably. Not primarily because its > > code was slow or anything, but simply because it isn't really written in > > the way that things are expected to work these days. > > This is true and all. But it's easily worked around by keeping /boot on > a non-LVM partition. > > I use a LVM setup and it works flawlessly. /boot on ext2, and / on LVM > ext4. And you can't really complain at a 5-6 second boot time with the > aforementioned setup. > > There's absolutely no reason to remain on old style DOS partitioning > setups on Linux. As I read lennart's post, he's talking about regular old init, after the kernel and initrd have come up. so what you do with /boot is irrelevant. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
