Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

[Dale]

Elaine C. Sharpe wrote:
> In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
>
>>
>> Yep, I read about others having problems and loosing data.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>
> You can read about others having problems and losing data with pretty
> much every bit of software ever coded. *Lots* of people are not particularly
> competent and write horroe stories or bad reviews without bothering to
> mention the errors they made which actually caused the problem.
> I see evidence of that on this very list daily. So IMO your method is
> a bit suspect. :)
>
>

The opposite can be said too.  I seem to recall hal working for a lot of 
people but for me, it was a miserable failure and forced me into a hard 
reset.

Just because something works for most people, doesn't mean it will for 
everyone either.  If you lose data, it doesn't matter.  LVM just adds 
one more layer of something to go wrong.  Me, I don't need the extra 
risk of having a system that doesn't boot and a loss of data.  I'm sure 
there are a lot of people that see it the way I do too.  They just don't 
need the extra risk.

Dale

:-)  :-)