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