On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:15:38PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
Well if you don't consider what Lennart mentioned [1] as a con
against
usage of lvm by default what pros do you see for having lvm by default
for the novice end user?
When the novice end user realizes that they made some poor storage decisions
initially, they can, with a little learning, fix it without much hassle.
I have a system which, for silly reasons, I did not use LVM, and then ended
up having change a separately-mounted /usr, and now (in a sort of irony,
considering this thread) can't shut down cleanly under systemd. Awesome.
I'm not particularly attached to LVM as a specific technology, but we need
something with equivalent functionality before we ditch it.
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Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences