Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3468 mails)

[Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi@xxxxxx>]

Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> On 4/15/07, Adam Tauno Williams
> <adamtaunowilliams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Should we, as a community, take some steps to ensure best experience
>> > for our Susers ? (SUSE users) :)
>> > One thing that comes to mind, is to symlink (or even hardlink?) sda
>> > block devices to hda files, so that suser's transition will be
>> > transparent.
>>
>> I really think this is a non-issue;  there is a long existing solution
>> to this problem: LVM.  Drives are scanned and assigned to volume groups
>> dynamically.
>>
>> Use LVM.
>>
>> > This will NOT solve the 15-partitions problem, but this *will* save
>>
>> I strongly suspect that 15 partitions per drives is *extremely* rare.
>>
>> Use LVM and you can carve up your disks as many ways as you want.
>>
>> > all the fstabs, backup scripts and other system software from braking
>> > with a new openSUSE release. This should be made as a
>> > backward-compatibility measure.
> 
> LVM is a non-solution. It doesn't supports Windows interoperability.
> Same goes for SoftRAID.
> I need to stay Windows compatible.
> 
In what way is your linux partition setup "windows compatible"?
I what way does LVM spoil your "Windows Compatibility"?

regards
Eberhard

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