Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (279 mails)

["Ulrich Windl" <ulrich.windl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1 Jun 2006 at 16:34, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:

> Hi,
> Lenz Grimmer wrote:
> > I noticed that Fedora seems to have switched to using Logical Volumes
> > for installing on the hard disk since FC4. I personally am using LVM
> > myself for a very long time and must say I am very fond of it. It
> > provides much more flexibility than using plain partitions, especially
> > when it comes to resizing or moving file systems or taking backups.
> > 
> > I'd like to propose that SUSE Linux considers switching to this scheme
> > for new installations by default, too - I now filed this as an
> > enhancement request in Bugzilla:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=180762
> > 
> > What do others think about that?
> 
> Only if you combine it with mount-by-{label,uuid}. That would certainly
> help people who are stuck after rearranging their hard disks.
> 
> While we are on the topic of booting: How about an additional initrd
> which has all storage drivers included, not only the ones you are using
> on your system? Currently there is no way to boot an installation
> after changing the harddisk controller (except recovery from CD which
> is unknown to most). So if the system can't find its root file system,
> it can emit a message "please reboot and select 'boot recovery mode'".
> The "boot recovery" initrd would have the same contents as the normal
> initrd, but with all storage drivers and added auto-probing.

I'd suggest a (working) yast repair module for that situation instead. (To be 
booted from different media, of course)

Ulrich


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