From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2qRo-0004X6-HM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:43:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F9771C040; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:42:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.3.142]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 323F81C040 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:42:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=mail.digimed.co.uk) by smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2qQG-0000j2-GM for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:42:20 +0000 Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0E6878006D for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:42:18 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:42:10 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)) Message-ID: <20110324194210.34199c88@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4D8B7D2B.90708@gmail.com> References: <4D87A7C6.1060502@gmail.com> <4d8a231d.4b0fdf0a.17b1.0d0f@mx.google.com> <6cb4ed45cc29b7658a628225a6f2bc53.squirrel@www.antarean.org> <4d8b2b5b.984cdf0a.1c4c.ffff8432@mx.google.com> <321afabe36c26434f77c63b6e30e0a83.squirrel@www.antarean.org> <4D8B7D2B.90708@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8cvs67 (GTK+ 2.22.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/0pIpTQ38jm/IYR91MiJ690i"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Originating-Smarthost03-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3852b3c938f95b092e09d22cf95c0399 --Sig_/0pIpTQ38jm/IYR91MiJ690i Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:19:39 -0500, Dale wrote: > I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade, as has=20 > happened to many others, see if you say the same thing. I hope your=20 > backups are good and they can restore. I must be one of the luckiest people around. LVM messes up for many people, yet I've run it on several machines for several years with no such troubles.. Ditto for ReiserFS, same for XFS too. Why does this luck not extend to lottery tickets? Maybe because that's the one area where it is more than apocryphal that most people are unlucky. --=20 Neil Bothwick An unemployed Court Jester is nobody's fool. --Sig_/0pIpTQ38jm/IYR91MiJ690i Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk2LnpgACgkQum4al0N1GQMATgCfYqKUWzWCCFvfmkHx7KTuj5x6 NyIAn04K80bqdiHYc61QpKIRBgR5k/cl =pMbY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/0pIpTQ38jm/IYR91MiJ690i--