Importance of LVM (was Re: Partitioning criteria revision proposal)

[Chris Murphy]

On Oct 25, 2012, at 7:38 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Nothing gets 'wedged in' anywhere, there is no code to 'put in' (nor
> will any of the code that exists get 'removed' even when we default to
> btrfs, I don't think).
> 
> I already posted the patch: it's two lines. All the code for LVM
> autopart already exists and is the same code that has existed for years.
> The patch simply changes the way the autopart code is called from
> 'please don't use LVM' to 'please use LVM'. It is two lines.
> http://fpaste.org/w1vE/

So the loose proposal here is to add this patch just for F18, and then undo it for F19?


> 
>> I like LVM. But I don't care about LVM as default for autopart one way
>> or another. We're just post beta freeze, and this is coming up for
>> serious conversation now? I think it needs to be let go. I think Jesse
>> Keating's reply is a sufficiently good and timely explanation for
>> having set expectations well prior to now.
> 
> The tricky thing is that the argument kind of cuts both ways: the thing
> that's the big change here was changing from LVM-by-default to
> raw-ext4-by-default, and that should have been clearly publicised and
> discussed. The fact that there are people just now finding out that it
> happened and being unhappy about it rather indicates that the planned
> change _wasn't_ properly communicated.

There are other explanations than it being improperly communicated.

We've had this same autopartitioning behavior for how many weeks? It is only affecting autopartitioning. I'm not realy clear what the downside even is, which is why I didn't have a fit over this two months ago. It's just a default for most people who either don't care, or don't understand the alternatives. Everyone else will use Manual Partitioning.

I think the public beta will make this more clear, however, how many people really expect LVM autopartitioning. But I really don't think it's that big of a deal. It's a default. Don't like the default? Change it.

Chris Murphy