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Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Another example is LVM. You or I might really need it (debatable now we |
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>> have ZFS) but the average user has no concept of what it might be, or |
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>> care. So why do Ubuntu installers shove it in your face as something |
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>> really cool that you should really really use? Because the author of the |
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>> installer thinks it's really cool, that's why. |
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> Maybe. |
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> Or maybe because when that computer's hard drive starts getting full |
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> and you add a new hard drive, if you're using lvm with a few commands |
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> you can make your /home expand across both drives, while with straight |
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> partitions that is a lot more work. |
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> There really is no reason not to use some kind of volume management |
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> solution these days, whether that is zfs/btrfs, or lvm. When your |
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> data is on lvm it is MUCH easier to move it around than if you just |
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> put it directly on drive partitions. |
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> Arguably you want more flexibility around adding/removing drives on |
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> the desktop than in the enterprise, because desktop users don't add |
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> and remove drives in sets of 5-6. This is why I think btrfs is |
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> actually superior to zfs conceptually on the desktop (setting aside |
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> the fact that it will tend to eat your data) - the flexibility matters |
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> more on the small scale because you want to go from a 3-disk RAID5 to |
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> a 4-disk RAID5. |
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You have a point but most people I know use a computer for years, until |
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it is about dead due to age, and the hard drive isn't even half full. I |
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have a neighbor that bought a computer several years ago with a 1TB |
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drive. Last I looked, it had less than 200GBs of data on it, including |
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the OS. |
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Sad to say but when a drive fills up, most people would think the system |
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is broken and just go buy a new one, while losing the data at the same |
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time. Most people I know, don't even think about transferring data from |
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their old system to their new system. They just assume a video or |
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whatever won't work except on that old system so they lose everything. |
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It's sad to say, even about some of my friends and even family members, |
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most are clueless about how a computer works and how easy it can be to |
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transfer data from one system to another. Same can be said with |
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backups. Especially if you don't have a lot, online backup services can |
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be very easy and require nothing from the user. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |