LVM in default filesystem layout

[drago01]

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >> blivet-gui works OK for some bits of LVM, it's a frontend for the same
>> >> library used in anaconda, it depends on what functionality the
>> >> Workstation people expect though, it doesn't for example support the
>> >> use of things like LVM snapshots, roll back of snapshots etc.
>> >
>> > On a workstation or laptop, LVM's main use is to encrypt the disks.
>>
>> huh? you don't need lvm for disk encryption.
>
> Well, you do need device mapper, for how we do encryption, though, and of course,
> you can't have LVM without device mapper.

Well yeah but the point is "you don't need LVM for encryption" not
"you don't need device mapper for LVM".