Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> writes: > On 12/22/2011 07:07 PM, Russell Coker wrote: >> It seems to me that wanting to have / outside LVM but /usr inside LVM is a >> fairly obscure corner case. > I have about 100 servers setup this way, and my laptops as well. I really > don't see why this would be a corner case. Please understand that many > different people have many different configuration, and that in today's > Debian, *absolutely everything is allowed*, and never, ever, Debian said > that one type of setup would one day be forbidden. > > Taking decisions that some setup are "not supported" would be a bad move > whatever the partitioning we are talking about. Please don't do that, > there's no reason why Debian would take such move. > > Thomas
The reason for such a setup is, historically, so that you could boot without initramfs. A small / (including /boot) to boot from and start up lvm before mounting /usr, /var and /home. Prior to grub2, which can now boot from LVM directly, this was a verry sensible setup. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sjjd9knn.fsf@frosties.localnet
