LVM not fit for Fedora Core

[Rob Andrews]

On 22-Dec-2006 15:50.59 (GMT), John Reiser wrote:
 > LVM does not inter-operate with anything else.
 > Grub does not work under LVM.

That's why you have a boot partition to load the kernel and initrd from.
The installer outlines this when you install. And the kernels always get put
into the /boot partition so they are accessible from grub.

 > Parted does not grok LVM:
 > you cannot create a hard partition from LVM free space.

No, of course you can't. But you seem to be speaking from an
interoperability perspective: If you dedicate an area of disk to a Linux
logical volume manager, you don't expect to have the space available for
whatever other operating systems you have on your computer.

And remember, not everyone dual boots.

 > Using the rescue CDs is a nightmare under LVM: the LVM
 > setup is not recognized automatically (you must remember
 > what it is) and the rescue environment contains no help
 > or documentation on LVM (such as: the _syntax_ for naming
 > the pieces!)

It's really simple:

lvm vgchange -a y

And that's all.

 > LVM probably kills all low-level backup and recovery.

"Probably" does not make for a good argument.

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