Hi.
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:38:05 -0600, Chris Adams wrote
Define "awful". I make use of it all the time on home and
office
desktops and even my notebook computer. It makes it easy to reassign
disk space from purpose A to purpose B (it would be easier if there
was a way to shrink a mounted ext3/ext4 FS, but that's a hard
problem). Logical volumes for virtual machines perform better (and
virtualization is something becoming more common on the desktop for
compatibility).
If you never tried the kind of freedom BTRFS and ZFS give you for
shifting around disk space, try it. Seriously. Then you'll see where
the "awful" comes from. In perspective it really is.