On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Jesse Keating
<jkeating(a)j2solutions.net> wrote:
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On 8/21/10 11:10 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Fri, 20.08.10 09:24, Adam Williamson (awilliam(a)redhat.com) wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 00:05 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>>> [1] We wrote C replacements for all remaining shell scripts in the
>>> boot
>>> and in shutdown, with the exception of LVM, DM, iSCSI and NFS stuff,
>>> which are shell orgies. But then again, neither of these features
>>> really
>>> matter for laptops where fast booting is most important
>>
>> Fedora uses LVMs by default, so anyone who installs Fedora on a laptop
>> and doesn't customize the partition scheme will have them.
>
> Well, I believe Fedora should not do this by default. This just adds
> complexity, makes boot slower, and offers exactly zero advantages for
> laptop/desktop users. Also, sooner or later LVM will be obsoleted anyway
> by btrfs which integrates most of the LVM features into the fs
> itself. And in contrast to LVM the btrfs userspace is kinda nice.
>
> Lennart
>
I've got no issues with not doing LVM by default here...
I think its needed for LUKS (unfortunately) but I would like to see it
non used for the other use cases.
Peter