-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-05-26 at 12:50 +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
LVM rocks. Everybody should be using LVM, and not partitions. The flexibility is so much nicer. I wish we'd finally make it the default.
I don't trust it. I have had filesystem damages (some of them caused by software) that completely hosed a partition, where the unrecoverable damage was always limited to a single partition. I don't have the confidence that a similar problem would not hose the entire LVM system and all the contained partitions. I have seen here (in this list) problems people were having with LVM when upgrading from one suse version to another, and very few answers. Like some rescue suse dvd not being able to mount lvm partitions at some time. If I have a problem with LVM and I have to do some manual recovery, I simply don't know what to do and where to ask. Is there a disaster recovery on LVM howto for dummies? There is a guesspart program that can find the partitions if the partition table gets deleted. Is there a similar program that can recover an LVM? If I keep several systems on the same computer; will not the different linuxes with different LVM versions contend with one another? If a system gets hossed, will I be able to use another of the systems (another linux or suse version) to try to recover the other system, if both are on LVM? LVM is for experts only. You can not push LVM on every body, as we can't handle it. We don't have the knowledge. Specially for home users. Yes, I tried... I did once try to install LVM on my computer, using yast. I had to abort, I wasn't sure what Yast was going to do. Now, even though I aborted, yast thinks there is an LVM somewhere and lists it in the partitioner. Other versions list /dev/evms/hdc - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIOqYktTMYHG2NR9URAkbEAKCRnF497i2+GzLGwELz9yMh+eDuVwCgiC0O AMH7DjXV7ecfML1S3A2+QbU= =HnzH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org