On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Albert Cahalan<[email protected]> wrote: > First partition: FAT16 with 4 KB clusters > Second partition: LVM with ext4
Gentlemen, before LVM can be considered, we need - fs resize that is fail-safe in the face of powerloss, for the fs types we plan to use. - lvm resize that is fail-safe in the face of powerloss I don't see how we are going to get that. Given that LVM is not applicable, and that part of our system lands in /home (Activities), I suspect that the best arrangement is - small FAT16 for boot - a single partition of whatever kind we want, taking the rest of the space And we'll keep playing games with symlink trees and overlaid bindmounts -- which we have to do anyway as olpc-update is the only failsafe OS upgrade mechanism we have so far. Once BTRFS is mature, yum learns to snapshot-upgrade-or-revert and we switch to that combo, we will be able to retire olpc-update, the symlink trees and the fancy overlays. In the meantime, anyone proposing a change of affairs needs a very solid plan that addresses all the points discussed in the discussion with dsd about a month ago about olpc-update. cheers, m -- [email protected] [email protected] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
