On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Peter Larsen < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 22:58 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > That's not what I said. I said I've been using Fedora and > > RedHat long > > before things like LVM existed. I'm more comfortable without > > them at > > times, especially after I got burned by a disk failure while > > using LVM. > > > > Oops! Disk failures happen. You had problems doing a restore? > > > > Whatever the case may be, it seems to me LVM shouldn't be thrown at > > newbies for the desktop. I certainly will keep away from it as much as > > I can. > > I could not disagree more. LVM is essential to solve problems like > resizing issues; backup and generally solve all the problems that static > partition tables has had since their inception. > I'm glad to learn that Beartooth finally found somebody to help him out! > Generally, "users" shouldn't care about how/where things are stored. > They use OpenOffice, mail, browsers and applications. It's not the users > job to configure the box and do system administration. > That's certainly the way Mac users think. The problem is when something goes awry. It sometimes takes a hell of a lot of time before you get out of the forest that eases things out. > The problem here seems to be, that Fedora isn't using a Grub version > that supports LVM. Is there any plans on switching to grub2 on install > so we can get rid of the /boot partition and help resolve issues like > upgrade needing more space temporarily. > Oops! No help for Beartooth, then? Are you saying that LVM has been pushed onto unsuspecting users something like 2 or 3 versions too soon? You'll need somebody more competent than me to comment on this but that's pretty much the reason I'm not too fond of Fedora's novelties.
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