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From: "Elaine C. Sharpe" <elaine@×××××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:46:18
Message-Id: 20110326174406.GA1665@gaurahari
1 In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
2 > Bill Longman wrote:
3 >> On 03/24/2011 11:17 AM, Dale wrote:
4 >>
5 >>> kashani wrote:
6 >>>
7 >>>> On 3/24/2011 10:19 AM, Dale wrote:
8 >>>>
9 >>>>> I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade, as has
10 >>>>> happened to many others, see if you say the same thing. I hope your
11 >>>>> backups are good and they can restore.
12 >>>>>
13 >>>>> Dale
14 >>>>>
15 >>>> Meh, boot a liveCD and fix it which took all of 15 minutes. I
16 >>>> don't see that as a failing of LVM, but of Gentoo for lack of another
17 >>>> culprit. You can only roll your OS forward in so many ways before you
18 >>>> have to do a little offline plumbing. May as well complain that you
19 >>>> had to shutdown your machine to put in more RAM.
20 >>>>
21 >>>> kashani
22 >>>>
23 >>>>
24 >>>>
25 >>> I researched using LVM a good while back. The reason I didn't was what
26 >>> I posted. It is prone to problems that are difficult if not impossible
27 >>> to correct. I may not have data that is worth much but I don't want to
28 >>> loose it either way.
29 >>>
30 >>> People that have read these posts can't plead ignorance.
31 >>>
32 >> Yet you, who "have never used LVM" *can* plead knowledge?
33 >> Uh....something's really wrong in this formula.
34 >>
35 >>
36 >
37 > Yep, I read about others having problems and loosing data.
38 >
39 > Dale
40 >
41 >:-) :-)
42
43 You can read about others having problems and losing data with pretty
44 much every bit of software ever coded. *Lots* of people are not particularly
45 competent and write horroe stories or bad reviews without bothering to
46 mention the errors they made which actually caused the problem.
47 I see evidence of that on this very list daily. So IMO your method is
48 a bit suspect. :)
49
50 --
51 ...she kept arranging and rearranging the rabbit and kind of waving to it. I decided, "this is the person I want to sit next to".

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