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 1Q3XZ4-0001ZH-IN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:46:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D049F1C048; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:44:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yi0-f53.google.com (mail-yi0-f53.google.com [209.85.218.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A29801C048 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:44:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yia25 with SMTP id 25so1047343yia.40 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:44:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.75.15 with SMTP id x15mr2091205yba.219.1301161454974; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:44:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gaurahari (adsl-152-61-103.asm.bellsouth.net [72.152.61.103]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q29sm1950198ybk.25.2011.03.26.10.44.13 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:44:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:44:06 -0400 From: "Elaine C. Sharpe" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)) Message-ID: <20110326174406.GA1665@gaurahari> References: 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 57c5c51ccae635d554fef652bfc42aad In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > Bill Longman wrote: >> On 03/24/2011 11:17 AM, Dale wrote: >> >>> kashani wrote: >>> >>>> On 3/24/2011 10:19 AM, Dale wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade, as has >>>>> happened to many others, see if you say the same thing. I hope your >>>>> backups are good and they can restore. >>>>> >>>>> Dale >>>>> >>>> Meh, boot a liveCD and fix it which took all of 15 minutes. I >>>> don't see that as a failing of LVM, but of Gentoo for lack of another >>>> culprit. You can only roll your OS forward in so many ways before you >>>> have to do a little offline plumbing. May as well complain that you >>>> had to shutdown your machine to put in more RAM. >>>> >>>> kashani >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> I researched using LVM a good while back. The reason I didn't was what >>> I posted. It is prone to problems that are difficult if not impossible >>> to correct. I may not have data that is worth much but I don't want to >>> loose it either way. >>> >>> People that have read these posts can't plead ignorance. >>> >> Yet you, who "have never used LVM" *can* plead knowledge? >> Uh....something's really wrong in this formula. >> >> > > 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. :) -- ...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".