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 1Q2s51-000204-EE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:28:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A27C71C0B2; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:27:04 +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 6E6B91C0B2 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:27:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yia25 with SMTP id 25so227321yia.40 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:27:04 -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=bPZGMwSclsWrlQCpP2O/P++P0zygqJCA4m/s0rRTS+8=; b=xrvG3dy1GmW+wJjxTr8ddOEYvFQjzs7IKkP3TbdQsCBm4rxDAh0/qtM1dFip4EPPr5 NWoMtK0tggIBn+BClYbZJ+HPOK5PGsqJVrFePj2Htyqhq/Th5Z3pvax8lz4kM6lyibY6 zWIc5LMp4BN/rx5Ii8gcU/thxN2GkerdnjVdI= 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=hnNfr2qvlOR0lpNVAZMhxxbhBWS6fPCSQbOSyyhzrrJIFDMW/KWZNdEXLs+uIT+Ifc 2qN9ic+tbC5AW4OATHm1mWo8PCJHHCQRVUaqKhm8ghXnLrPrGk4hy1YwqFO8V0kykDpX yDOqyhjYyxdXBTZr5i3i1p60cUD7yWyc35YBQ= Received: by 10.91.137.11 with SMTP id p11mr41456agn.17.1301002023893; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:27:03 -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 b3sm320639ana.50.2011.03.24.14.27.02 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:27:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D8BB725.1050707@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:27:01 -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> <4D8B8AB5.6060902@gmail.com> <4D8B93EB.9010900@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D8B93EB.9010900@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 0f1c8361b1ce1f29ac9035894d0b4049 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 :-) :-)