On Feb 6, 2004, Paul Jakma <paul(a)clubi.ie> wrote:
On Fri, 5 Feb 2004, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> Booting with LVM for the first time, if you have your root
> filesystem in LVM, is a bit tricky.
I dont. There's /no/ value in that IMO. root fs'es should be
small
and as easy to boot as possible. Anyone who doesnt have their root
fs's like that is just someone who is waiting to learn a lesson. :)
Well, see... /boot is pretty small, but the root filesystem
(including /usr) has grown a lot over the past few years. Had I set
aside a 5GB partition for that say 2 years ago, since that was a lot
more than enough for a full install, I'd hardly be able to do a full
install on it nowadays. One of the reasons to use LVM is to make
filesystems easier to grow and manage. Say, if I want to install yet
another experimental release, I just create a new logical volume for
it. No need to go find room for a non-LVM partition in one of the 8
disks on my desktop.
> That said, since it was such a pain to switch back and forth
> between 2.4 and 2.6 in the same tree, I ended up removing 2.6 from
> my FC1 installs, and only using 2.6 in rawhide installs.
Do you mean in general? Or for the case of root-on-lvm only?
I think there are some pains to the general case, and greater pains
for the root-in-LVM case.
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