LVM in default filesystem layout

[Pete Travis]

On May 4, 2015 2:58 PM, "drago01" <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Christian Schaller <cschalle at redhat.com>
wrote:
> > Hi,
> > So I just noticed that an a fresh install system I did of the latest
FW22 beta the filesystem gets set up with LVM.
> > I thought this was one of the changes we had done to the Workstation
compared to the server image for instance, to not use LVM?
>
> No it has been discussed and stayed as is ... and yes I agree that LVM
> makes little to no sense on desktops or even laptops (the latter in
> general only have one disc .. ).
> --

I've seen people get themselves into tricky partitioning layout situations
- especially on non-GPT systems - and the flexibility of LVM made it
possible for them to install Fedora. Sometimes they did it to themselves,
sometimes it's from the OEM.  I suspect with admittedly no hard data that
LVM as default transparently handled many, many situations where without
LVM, relatively complex manual partitioning would be required.

Users that dual boot with Windows benefit if their partition state is
suboptimal.  Users that play with multiple distros on bare metal benefit
from flexibility and segregation.  I'm not sure who benefits from removing
it, aside from folks that decide to only use gnome-disks for filesystem and
partition management.  This multiboot crowd is your mindshare generator,
try to make it easy for them.

--Pete
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