LVM or FS:EXT3?

[Ed Greshko]

Alan Cox wrote:
>> It's transparent unless it breaks.  I do the same as you advise here,
>> throw out LVM at install time.  All the machines here are laptops with
>> only Fedora as the bootable OS, and everything but /boot in one /
>> partition, so LVM is a completely senseless default.
> 
> LVM is great.. for big server boxes with many users and unknown usage
> requirements. I turn it off. I'd rather a single disk was straight
> partitions (eg a laptop) and anything else gets two disks with striped
> MD0 swap and mirrored MD1 file systems. IDE disks are just too unreliable
> for anything but mirroring

Care to elaborate on that last statement?  Are you talking about the disks
themselves or the IDE interface or ????  If "IDE" disks are unreliable then
what disks are reliable?