LVM in default filesystem layout

Christian Schaller cschalle at redhat.com
Tue May 5 22:52:57 UTC 2015





----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rahul Sundaram" <metherid at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" <desktop at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2015 5:27:09 PM
> Subject: Re: LVM in default filesystem layout
> 
> Hi
> 
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> 
> 
> You have strong points in favor of LVM.
> 
> I guess the most significant downside is the very poor support in
> GNOME Disks.
> 
> It seems to be that the better path forward is to default to encryption on
> atleast laptops and add support for LVM to GNOME Disks rather than moving
> away from LVM with no real plan to handle encryption without it

I am not sure if I am missing something here, but I just did a fresh install today
of the Fedora Workstation 22 beta, I choose not to have the disk set up with LVM, 
yet I asked for encryption, as far as I can tell it works just fine at least I get asked
for my decryption key upon boot.

Christian


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