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For having attempted +</I>><i> >> to manage (and learn) how to manage LVM partitons with CentOS, it is +</I>><i> >> quite complicated. So it certainly has many advantages, but I'm awaiting +</I>><i> >> an intuitive disk manager like Diskdrake to manage this stuff without +</I>><i> >> the need of preliminary knowledge. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > Yes, with diskdrake, it's no problem. Anaconda's LVM interface is quite +</I>><i> > confusing and complex. After installation, AFAIK, you can't access the same +</I>><i> > interface. system-config-lvm (if it's still around) was also pretty unusable. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > But, we have diskdrake, so why are the problems of CentOS an issue? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Because (as I remarked earlier) there are people who have other Linux +</I>><i> flavors on their harddisk before they try Mageia - what if they do +</I>><i> their partitioning with those (i.e. CentOS)? +</I> +Well, if they have already partitions to reuse ( ie, ex centos +partition ), they will just reuse them without lvm and that's all. And +if they do not have any partition to reuse, or just a part of the disk, +we are in the same case, there is free space and we can use it as we +want. + +><i> Again, people do not work all the same. There are people who do their +</I>><i> partitioning with 3rd-party apps like gparted or others. There are +</I>><i> people who like to have a bootloader in the root partition of each +</I>><i> Linux they install (using chainloader in the first Linux' grub), etc. +</I> +And what exactly would be broken with lvm and theses schemes ? + +Arguments based on "there is some special cases that would requires +special care" are not very helpful if the special case is not described +in details, and we cannot have technical discussion based on imprecise +input. + +><i> IMHO it is a bad idea to make LVM default, because there are too many +</I>><i> cases around where people would not want LVM. LVM as an option is a +</I>><i> far better solution and let the user decide what he wants. +</I> +Making it be default doesn't mean that the user cannot decide to opt +out, this argument do not seems very strong. + +This is a default, not something that would be forced to use. + +And this is not a all or nothing, you can perfectly have a partition in +the lvm, and one outside ( or several, or any mix you want ). + +-- +Michael Scherer + +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002729.html">[Mageia-dev] time to switch from raw partitions to lvm? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002731.html">[Mageia-dev] time to switch from raw partitions to lvm? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2730">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2730">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2730">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2730">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |