On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 07:26:15PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote > Hi Walter, can you expand on the LVM2 problem you mention on the MDEV > page and/or a link if there is one on the status? > > I am building a new desktop (finally building as 64bit!) which will need > lvm2 and after trying gnome3 for a couple of months on my existing > machines, I have decided that its too unstable, too much of a resource > hog and such a major productivity killer so its time to abandon ship.
I personally use ICEWM. It does the job, and I get an autohiding launchbar along the bottom. Thinking about this has inspired me to change my sig. See below. > If I have to swim, I would like to use the opportunity to drop udev so I > can avoid that train wreck as well. I've never used lvm so I'm the last person to ask. See http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Unionfs-linuxrc which mentions lvm2 under mdev Alpine Linux is a server-oriented distro that uses mdev instead of udev. If anybody has gotten stuff running under mdev, it's them. See http://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Setting_up_a_software_raid1_array for some hints. The article looks a bit old, so I don't know if it'll work for you now. If you get it running, please let me know, and/or update the wiki. I'm going on a little trip later this month, after I get back, I might just set up a dedicated test machine with all sorts of stuff like lvm2 on it. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
