Hi,
Lenz Grimmer wrote:
> I noticed that Fedora seems to have switched to using Logical Volumes
> for installing on the hard disk since FC4. I personally am using LVM
> myself for a very long time and must say I am very fond of it. It
> provides much more flexibility than using plain partitions, especially
> when it comes to resizing or moving file systems or taking backups.
>
> I'd like to propose that SUSE Linux considers switching to this scheme
> for new installations by default, too - I now filed this as an
> enhancement request in Bugzilla:
>
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=180762
>
> What do others think about that?
Only if you combine it with mount-by-{label,uuid}. That would certainly
help people who are stuck after rearranging their hard disks.
While we are on the topic of booting: How about an additional initrd
which has all storage drivers included, not only the ones you are using
on your system? Currently there is no way to boot an installation
after changing the harddisk controller (except recovery from CD which
is unknown to most). So if the system can't find its root file system,
it can emit a message "please reboot and select 'boot recovery mode'".
The "boot recovery" initrd would have the same contents as the normal
initrd, but with all storage drivers and added auto-probing.
Thoughts?
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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