At 2004-11-10T21:11:49+1300, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> Just to pretend to be a 'Linux heavyweight' (ho ho) for a minute...
Hmm?
> I feel that it's a bit complicated, and adds unneeded complication to
> disk partitioning,
I have to disagree with this. Use of volume management in Linux is
totally optional, so you have to make a concious decision to use it.
Therefore, it's hardly "unneeded complication", and it's not as if you
don't have a chance to learn about it before unleashing it upon
yourself. If you need volume management, it's there and you can use it;
if you don't, keep slicing disks the way you've been able to for the
past 13 odd years in Linux.
Besides, if you've ever used the basic logical disk slicing abilities of
the likes of the HP/Dell/IBM/etc. array controllers, it's not much of a
leap of understanding to do almost the same thing with pure software at
the OS level.
> which should really be addressed by a bit of analysis, followed by
> static partitioning.
True, if you can remove the complexity of volume management without
trading required flexibility. In most cases, you can, but not in all.
Cheers,
-mjg
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