On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Saturday 05 December 2009 13:52:36 Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> > But the point is taken. There seem to be quite a few posts from folks
> > that make their lives needlessly complex by mucking with the defaults
> > and that ends up breaking something downstream.
>
> Are you saying that something is "broken downstream" if you don't use
LVM?
> With respect, that is nonsense.
And I was just about to ask what exactly is broken downstream... :-) I've been
driving several Fedora versions on several machines for several years now with
a custom-partitioned disks (simple setups, typically just swap, / and /home,
no LVM or anything such), and nothing "downstream" seemed broken, ever.
AFAICS, it is completely safe to not use LVM if you know you won't be resizing
partitions afterwards. And life is simpler if the hard drive starts dying or
something... ;-)
Assuming the LVM or no-LVM decision is not negotiable, perhaps it
would be better to work on improving tools such as system-config-lvm
to abstract less experienced users from the complexity? While s-c-lvm
is functional it has a lot of room for improvement.
One problem in particular I ran into is that if you use s-c-lvm to
create a volume group on a new disk it creates a whole disk volume
group which is still incompatible with anaconda. Since the LVM wiki
recommends creating a partition first I submitted a bug against
s-c-lvm which was summarily closed since it is technically a problem
with anaconda. Now two Fedora releases later I still have to install
with the default /home and map it in manually.
Sorry I'm heading off topic into a rant but I find it frustrating that
there is a compatibility issue between two redhat/fedora applications
that is still a problem a year later. I know it's not a problem many
people will run into but the fact one program does something that
creates an incompatibility with another program from the same
company/group to me should make it important to fix.
Anyway, I'm done, I feel better, now back to our regularly scheduled topic...
Richard