On 03/24/2016 02:07 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
OK but using dmsetup instead of lvm tools is more clarity and openness, but do you do it that way? Even more clear and open is using a hex editor to directly modify the metadata on the hard drive sectors.
As opposed to using butterflies, you mean? http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/real_programmers.png
There's also an attribute of tediousness, is what I'm getting at. And while I recognize why there are separate steps for pvcreate, vgcreate, lvcreate I find it tedious most of the time.
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