On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 09:32 -0800, John Reiser wrote: > Gilboa Davara wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 07:50 -0800, John Reiser wrote: > > > >>Gilboa Davara wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Use LVM. > >>>Trust me. > >>>You won't be sorry. > >> > >>I've been there, done that, and regretted it deeply. > >>I got rid of LVM the first chance I could. > >> > >>LVM does not inter-operate with anything else. > >>Grub does not work under LVM. > > > > > > Why should it? > > Why shouldn't it? LVM is touted as "the solution" to restrictions > on disk partitioning. Except that LVM doesn't work for the first > logical access to disk partitions: booting. No you are wrong. -grub- doesn't support LVM. (Same goes for xfs, reiserfs and at least 95 other file systems) > > > > HUH? > > Why-on-earth-would-you-want-to-do-that? > > To interoperate with the rest of the world, such as other > operating systems, even other distributions of Linux, > that understand DOS partition tables but not LVM. > If you don't have infinitely many boxes then it is useful > to be able to "compromise". If you remove Linux from the equation. Does Windows support ZFS-lvm? Does Solaris support dynamic disks? What OSs are you talk about exactly? As for other distributions... well, on my old workstation I had Slackware, Debian, Fedora and CentOS all sharing the same LVM. If you favorite distro doesn't support LVM, you have a very, very, old distro. > > > > > > >>Using the rescue CDs is a nightmare under LVM: the LVM > >>setup is not recognized automatically (you must remember > >>what it is) and the rescue environment contains no help > >>or documentation on LVM (such as: the _syntax_ for naming > >>the pieces!) > > > > > > I can agree that Feodra documentation on the subject is... missing. > > A. TLDP has an excellent on-line documentation. [1] > > B. system-config-lvm is improvement constantly. > > C. Documentation missing? Join the documentation team and help them fix > > it. > > "Get off the bus one stop before I do." I didn't recognize that > LVM documentation was missing from the rescue CD until I needed it > but it wasn't there. As I said, TDLP has a very comprehensive LVM documentation. Last time I checked, it was the first google result to LVM howto. > Data longevity is not the strong suit of RHEL/Fedora Core/Linux. > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=137068 Now you're just trolling. > _You_ strongly advocated LVM and suggested "You won't be sorry" > without any disclaimers. I'm supplying some of the omissions. No you're not. Out of your initial post, only two items stand: A. Documentation is missing. (You'll have to open google - oh my God!) B. Hardware failure will require manual intervention. (Though in 3 years and countless hardware crashes, I only had to manually mount lvm once, and even this was caused by a broken software RAID) The rest of your post(s) were pure senseless ranting. (Especially the BZ#) BTW, if you consider Fedora/RHEL to be an unstable junk, -why- are you here? - Gilboa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
