Am 06.09.2012 21:35, schrieb Steven Stern: > On 09/06/2012 01:47 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 09/06/2012 11:23 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >>> For which I am deeply grateful. Most of the time LVM is fine, even >>> preferred, but some times I really "want it my way" and now that's easy. >> >> Personally, I find LVM to be a great solution looking for a problem. I >> only have one LVM partition, and that's only because I forgot to turn it >> off when I created it. Of course, I'm only using Fedora for my home >> computer, and I can see how useful it can be in a production >> environment. Maybe what we need is for anaconda to ask if this is a >> home or production installation, and have LVM default to off for home, >> on for production? > > If it were simple then LVM would be wonderful. If, on detecting a new > drive, the system would say "Hey, you have a new drive. Do you want me > to extend one or more existing partitions there?", it would be workable. > But it's not that easy.
and this is good so why? because many naive people would say "yes extend" without realize what happens if you have a LVM over 6 physical drives without a RAID after one of the drives is dying
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