is lvm deprecated?

[Mike Wright]

David Burns wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org>wrote:
> 
>>> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Mike Burger
>>> <mburger at bubbanfriends.org>wrote:
>>>> What you'll want to do, now, is to run system-config-lvm, and run
>>>> through
>>>> the process of creating actual logical volumes and setting them up as
>>>> filesystems.
>>>>
>>>> It's actually very simple and painless.
>>>
>>> I burst out laughing when I read this.
>> I'm not sure if I should be happy or unhappy about your
>> laughter...especially since my response was born out of nearly 7 years of
>> using LVM tools under AIX, and 4 or 5 of doing so under Fedora.
>>
>> Which part of my response drove you to laughter, if I may?
> 
> 
> It's difficult to explain. I wasn't thinking anything like "Whoa, that
> person must be so crazy" or anything like that. It was just pretty obvious
> that our perspectives are completely and (to me) amusingly different.
> Calling LVM 'useful' or 'powerful' would not have made my eyes bat, but
> 'simple' is too close to 'obvious' (that was the warm-up) and 'painless'? I
> guess it seemed to me that the entire conversation would never have happened
> if it was painless. Sort of like saying "The pain you feel is an illusion!
> Master your emotions! Get a grip!" I guess it could also be seen as funny
> from the perspective of, well, nothing is so simple and painless that there
> is no one lazy enough to get confused by it and earn themselves some pain by
> their confusion.
> 
> Let me confess, I've always tried to remain as ignorant as possible about
> LVM, and so any confusion and pain I've encountered is well earned by me. It
> is mine alone. It's a bit analogous to newbies struggling with the
> distinctions between devices, disks, partitions, and file systems. Most of
> these things can now be dealt with in a way that, once mastered, seems
> fairly simple and painless (though people still trip up). But to someone who
> is new to it, it seems pretty annoying. Maybe just a bit more effort with
> LVM would bring me to the promised land of painless simplicity.
> 
> Dave
> 

My turn,

ROTFL !!!