[CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

Tue Jun 23 21:02:00 UTC 2015
Jason Warr <jason at warr.net>


On 6/23/2015 3:31 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>> On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 14:23:52 -0400
>> Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:15:30 -0500
>>>> Jason Warr <jason at warr.net> wrote:
>>>>> I'm curious what has made some people hate LVM so much.
>>>> (3) It's being pushed as default on everyday ordinary users, who
>>>> have absolutely no need for it.
>>>>
>>>        That is not lvm's fault, but the distro's decision.
>> Agreed, but remember that hatred is not a rational thing. When one sees
> <snip>
> Hold on thar, pardner. I don't "hate" LVM, but don't care for it. And in
> most cases, or at least my own, and the person who is vehemently against
> it, it's based on personal experience. How is that "not a rational thing"?

The only thing that could be irrational about it is if you were to say 
"It does not work for me now so how can it work for anyone, ever?"

I have not seen any of you guys taking that attitude but some do.

Recommending against using LVM and citing reasons based on your 
experience with it is certainly valid and basically why I asked the 
question in the first place.  I have not come across any serious 
blockers and was curious what made it blockers for some of you.



>
> For that matter, haven't you ever gotten gunshy when something that's
> billed as the LATESTGREATESTTHINGSINCESLICEDBREAD is buggy, and not ready
> for prime time? Certainly 10-12 years ago, that's how I felt about python,
> where literally every sub-release broke what was running. Is it irrational
> to be unappreciative of it? (We'll ignore my unhappiness at the whole
> concept of whitespace as a syntax element.)
>
> Or then there's systemd....
>
>          mark
>
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