On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 19:47 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Somewhat OT: IMHO one thing that makes installing Fedora harder than
it
needs to be for the majority of users is the default use of LVM. I've
been using Fedora since before it was Fedora, and have *never* had a
situation in which LVM was any use to me. I understand the benefits it
brings to large installations with complex and varying storage
requirements, but that's not the case for most people and having to deal
with its highly domain-specific terminology turns it into a mental
obstacle that would be better avoided.
I thought that both LVM technology and its benefits were widely
understood by now. It has a lot of value even in a single-disk
situation: you can shuffle space between filesystems, migrate data to a
new disk, add space from a new disk to an existing filesystem, and
create a copy-on-write snapshot of a filesystem -- and do most of that
while the system is running. It's saved my bacon more times than I want
to admit.
Rather than remove LVM from the default installation, perhaps we need to
do a better job of explaining what it does and how to use it
effectively.
-Chris