[Mageia-dev] time to switch from raw partitions to lvm?

Tue Feb 22 09:41:16 CET 2011

Am 22.02.2011 09:07, schrieb Buchan Milne:
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+> The user will still *always* be able to decide what he wants. The question is, what to do for users who don't know what to decide. IMHO, for a first time user, it is *much* better to give them a "Use available space, with growable filesystems" or similar, than a statically partitioned, based on difficult-to-get-right heuristics.
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+That's a good point. The step for partitioning is still the most complex 
+one during the installation. There are really often questions and 
+discussions how to partition the hard disk.
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+But, as a user who doesn't know anything about LVM, we should only 
+switch if the algorithm for LVM works really really stable and is easy 
+to use.
+It seems to me positive to switch to LVM for default but it's not really 
+important, so we don't should risk to much and take the time it needs, 
+instead of forcing it to be finished for the next release, for example.
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+Just my concerns to this topic.
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+Regards,
+Thorsten
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