>>> On 8/13/2008 at 6:32 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > Oh. Why does Red Hat default to using LVM?
Since I work in NTS now, I can engage in some educated speculation, but speculation nonetheless: - The people who made this decision were never responsible for supporting hundreds of production servers in an enterprise - It eliminated a lot of "nuisance" service requests because unsophisticated users/system administrators (SAs) ran into problems using fixed partition sizes, and they figured experienced SAs would never use the default anyway. - The decision was overly influenced by the Fedora community who didn't want that kind of "complexity." - They just didn't know any better. - I think you get the idea. A lot of decisions that get made for defaults have little to do with what might be considered "best" in the industry. Mix and match as you choose. The team I worked on at EDS supported 800+ servers, almost all of them Red Hat. We _never_ used LVM for /. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
