* P. Christeas ([email protected]) wrote: > On Sunday 20 February 2011, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > > Hi > > > > What do you think about switching from defaulting to installing on raw > > partitions to lvm > > installing on LVs like fedora does ? > > I vote against that. (=to be enabled by default) > > LVM is fine for "enterprise" setups, or better, installations where the > (expert) admin will need to resize/move partitions in the future. But, for > simple machines/users, the complexity of having LVM is IMHO not worth it. > > (remember also that on all *nix OSes, you can just add a partition, move some > files like /usr/share/doc into it and then mount it on /usr/share/doc, thus > freeing /usr of some space. No LVM, no virtualization, no ZFS required)
I mostly agree, but the snapshot feature can really be an advantage... -- Olivier Thauvin CNRS - LATMOS ♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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