>>> On 8/13/2008 at 9:47 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Rohling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > And expansion of a root filesystem much harder.
With a properly laid out file system design, that will _never_ be necessary. Never. > As pointed out, RedHat > defaults to an LVM root - so it's harder to brush it aside as just a bad > idea. No, that doesn't make it harder at all. See my other post on that. > I think there are pros and cons - enough on both sides that I wouldn't flat > out tell someone "don't do it".. Recovery is less easy, yes, but certainly > possible - you just have more than one DASD to consider. It's far worse than that. Having / on an LV has _zero_ advantages, since there is never a need to expand the root file system. Having / on an LV introduces additional risk, and will elongate recovery time. That makes the decision very easy. More risk, no benefit, no deal. Put / on an "plain partition." 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
