Valid points.  

I guess if one has solid backups it is more of a moot point, correct?  In the 
z/VM world, is it common for / to get wasted any more than in the x86 world?

>>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:41 AM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob van der Heij
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Fargusson.Alan
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> There have been several times when people have posted to this list asking 
> for help recovering when a LVM containing the root filesystem has gone bad.  
> It may be that when using VM you have more of a chance of messing up.
> 
> It's probably that you have different options on VM to repair if it
> breaks. It turns out to be very hard to do a complete virtualization
> of the "walk over to the local console of the server and insert the
> CD" and hack it. So we try to come up with an approach that provides
> the same function but with some different tools. While doing that, it
> makes sense to see whether the big road blocks actually need to be
> there.
> 
> Rob
> 
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