LVM in default filesystem layout

Josh Boyer jwboyer at fedoraproject.org
Wed May 6 00:09:32 UTC 2015


On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

As noted earlier in the thread, disk encryption does not require nor
even use LVM.  It uses device mapper (specifically dm-crypt).

josh


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