David,
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 15:53 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
Normal users have no particular need for LVM -- it just makes the
boot
process gratuitously more fragile, and this is just a symptom of that
fragility.
with current hard disk sizes, LVM is really a good thing to have as
you're not forced to allocate every scrap of the disk at installation
time, but can resize volumes when needed. Your argument of fragility is
a strawman, just because you deem LVM the spawn of evil doesn't mean
that this breakage is not a bug that should be fixed.
Nils
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