Once upon a time, Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> said: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 6:47 PM Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Once upon a time, Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> said: > > > It benefits LVM-based OS snapshotting equally well. However, the > > > tooling for LVM snapshots are under-developed, so it's not used so > > > much for this. > > > > How? Since the standard install uses a single root filesystem that > > includes /usr and /var, I can't see any benefit to it there either. > > It does *now*, but it's not necessarily desirable to keep it that way > if you want this capability. For Btrfs, shuffling subvolumes is cheap. > For LVM, shuffling LVs is a bit more work. I know about LVM snapshots - I used them for years to get point-in-time backups. But that doesn't explain a benefit to splitting /, /usr, and /var into separate filesystems/LVs/whatever. -- Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
