On 02/23/2011 03:33 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 02:08:08PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett<mjg59(a)srcf.ucam.org> said:
>> You can't move PVs.
>
> What do you think pvmove does?
Move PEs from one PV to another. You can't move a PV.
>> You need a separate /boot.
>
> That's needed for more than just LVM (and probably won't go away, as it
> is a lot simpler to handle a single method in the installer).
Unless you're booting off iSCSI or really, really love software RAID
(which btrfs also kindly simplifies), the only reason you need a
separate /boot is because we're slow at putting updated filesystem
support in grub because there's no need because we default to a separate
/boot. There's a certain amount of circularity there.
Also we need to have the initramfs on an unencrypted chunk of disk.
>> If you use more than one
>> disk then it adds significant fragility to the boot process.
>
> How does it do that (any more than any other multi-disk setup)?
My experience with LVM is that any number of error states dump me into
an awkward recovery scenario. Again it's not an inherent problem with
the technology, more just that because nobody outside the enterprise
world really cares about LVM nobody has bothered making it easy for
non-sysadmins to handle this stuff.
Yep.
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