The case against LVM

[Mike McCarty]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>> There are more than one partitioning scheme. Any of them can
>> be used with either SCSI or ATA. Whether software to allow this
>> exists, I don't know. Partitioning schemes are conventions for
>> partitioning drives, they are part of the format. They are not
>> part of the physical access method. So SCSI and ATA, being physical
>> access methods, are independent of format.
>>
>> That's not to say that often by convention only certain
>> formats are used with certain physical access methods.
> 
> 
> It's a little more than convention in a normal PC.  If you'd like to 
> boot, you need a structure that bios understands.
> 

The BIOS has nothing to do with the partition table layout. I have
heard that some BIOS can lay down an MBR, but an MBR isn't even
needed for boot.

Mike
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