> So really think hard before splitting off a filesystem outside of > volume management. I believe it is more likely to cause problems > than it is to avoid problems.
All my machines have a separate /boot partition (and everything else in LVM). These are all "historical accidents", because at the time I set them up, the respective boot loader (LILO, Grub, U-Boot) didn't know how to read LVM volumes, and I just never bothered to change. But I fully agree with you: if your bootloader can read from LVM (as is the case with Grub2), then you're better off without a separate /boot partition. Stefan "not sure if U-Boot can read from LVM yet"