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 1Q2p8H-0005Uo-Rb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:19:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B0F91C082; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:17:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f53.google.com (mail-gw0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C2851C082 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:17:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwb15 with SMTP id 15so149591gwb.40 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:17:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=wd381tRCGbQyPsyPPTGbHfT0kl5ukvFlIEf3lFyQOUM=; b=a7q6o3uwAIllBNrKOL9b0BElCvIvJ8Wu1nN5DnaIqkF649kWRPrb41C4hHmLsXYZg6 O9YhfhA4OspSx4XIEFGOMmX9L66VOb79qke4W1kp+RA5JvKgYvqvTFWGLfEeDXhhTV2a 3iRMR1QBRxsUWC10cgGIB0tiYGGJBxMF0t07o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=jZHrSkHe+Ql3RGq7aIVduPNrTzdXcOU0K2DkwzlwuvHYpJeSnWcetu+CDtw9dQL2vc x2txLdpOnl7Df25my/d1u78cPihTAo4+32smD1eXUsRjCJXdWzbB1fE4j+rsjXifaHq2 AmBq/LS69srMXvcV6mpce2y7bvnsF9IjuMIIQ= Received: by 10.150.114.8 with SMTP id m8mr3278855ybc.60.1300990647874; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:17:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-0-90-60.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.90.60]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l2sm144079ybn.18.2011.03.24.11.17.26 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:17:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D8B8AB5.6060902@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:17:25 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.17) Gecko/20110321 Gentoo/2.0.12 SeaMonkey/2.0.12 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> <4D8B7F48.7020408@badapple.net> In-Reply-To: <4D8B7F48.7020408@badapple.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2040f13e20a58c334f2d5f7a07301d8d 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. Good luck. Dale :-) :-)