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 1Q2oML-0006xk-5n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:30:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 11BF61C043; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:28:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www01.badapple.net (www01.badapple.net [64.79.219.163]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D868C1C043 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:28:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (173-8-169-73-SFBA.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.8.169.73]) (Authenticated sender: ramin@badapple.net) by www01.badapple.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 36E248446021 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:28:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D8B7F48.7020408@badapple.net> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:28:40 -0700 From: kashani User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)) 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> In-Reply-To: <4D8B7D2B.90708@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 1b11a20d4714853d9031b270ee4d5aef 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