On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 09:32 -0800, John Reiser wrote:
Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 07:50 -0800, John Reiser wrote:
>
>>Gilboa Davara wrote:
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>>>Use LVM.
>>>Trust me.
>>>You won't be sorry.
>>
>>I've been there, done that, and regretted it deeply.
>>I got rid of LVM the first chance I could.
>>
>>LVM does not inter-operate with anything else.
>>Grub does not work under LVM.
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> Why should it?
Why shouldn't it? LVM is touted as "the solution" to restrictions
on disk partitioning. Except that LVM doesn't work for the first
logical access to disk partitions: booting.
No you are wrong.
-grub- doesn't support LVM.
(Same goes for xfs, reiserfs and at least 95 other file systems)
>
> HUH?
> Why-on-earth-would-you-want-to-do-that?
To interoperate with the rest of the world, such as other
operating systems, even other distributions of Linux,
that understand DOS partition tables but not LVM.
If you don't have infinitely many boxes then it is useful
to be able to "compromise".
If you remove Linux from the equation.
Does Windows support ZFS-lvm?
Does Solaris support dynamic disks?
What OSs are you talk about exactly?
As for other distributions... well, on my old workstation I had
Slackware, Debian, Fedora and CentOS all sharing the same LVM.
If you favorite distro doesn't support LVM, you have a very, very, old
distro.
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>>Using the rescue CDs is a nightmare under LVM: the LVM
>>setup is not recognized automatically (you must remember
>>what it is) and the rescue environment contains no help
>>or documentation on LVM (such as: the _syntax_ for naming
>>the pieces!)
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>
> I can agree that Feodra documentation on the subject is... missing.
> A. TLDP has an excellent on-line documentation. [1]
> B. system-config-lvm is improvement constantly.
> C. Documentation missing? Join the documentation team and help them fix
> it.
"Get off the bus one stop before I do." I didn't recognize that
LVM documentation was missing from the rescue CD until I needed it
but it wasn't there.
As I said, TDLP has a very comprehensive LVM documentation.
Last time I checked, it was the first google result to LVM howto.
Data longevity is not the strong suit of RHEL/Fedora Core/Linux.
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=137068
Now you're just trolling.
_You_ strongly advocated LVM and suggested "You won't be
sorry"
without any disclaimers. I'm supplying some of the omissions.
No you're not.
Out of your initial post, only two items stand:
A. Documentation is missing. (You'll have to open google - oh my God!)
B. Hardware failure will require manual intervention. (Though in 3 years
and countless hardware crashes, I only had to manually mount lvm once,
and even this was caused by a broken software RAID)
The rest of your post(s) were pure senseless ranting. (Especially the
BZ#)
BTW, if you consider Fedora/RHEL to be an unstable junk, -why- are you
here?
- Gilboa