LVM not fit for default

leomon leomon.chris at gmail.com
Sun Dec 24 17:37:02 UTC 2006


Oh, and Joachim,

I don't think it was a Hardware issue, I just think I got some sort of data
corruption and it messed up the partition table, and since LVM handles the
management of Logical Volumes on Real Partitions, there were no partitions
that I could e2fsck.....

later,

Chris

On 12/24/06, Joachim Frieben <jfrieben at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > First of all I have experienced the same "no help hell" with lvm when
> > it crashes. (not if, when) I had FC3 installed on my Compaq R3000
> > Series notebook, default settings, except for package options. Ran
> > that for about three weeks. I reinstall testing out new distros quite
> > a lot, so I don't worry about backing up the entire system, and
> > something happened with the system, the kernel panicked  when it
> > couldn't find a root FS. Same problem as andy.
> >
> > Basically All I'm trying to say is that yes it fails sometime, no it
> > is a cool thing to have, but either give us some tools on default
> > install/rescue disc to combat the issue, or take it out unless the
> > system detects a RAID array.
> >
> > Thanks guys,
> >
> > Chris
>
> Come on, "FC3" got released *three*years* ago, so it's not appropriate to
> make an argument out of this for discussing today's maturity of "LVM". Btw,
> I have been using "LVM" exclusively for 3 years now [exact, since I first
> installed "FC3"], and I have never ever had any trouble with it at all.
> Maybe you encountered a hardware problem?
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