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 1Q3Y58-0005qI-A2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:19:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00FB0E06F3; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:17:44 +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 C7D87E06F3 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:17:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yia25 with SMTP id 25so1054464yia.40 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:17:44 -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=fnTqn5z1msvHUKDi1SJWIZfbQcph27tcmr0zxdygUrg=; b=S7ytTZFkaMWK9c+DQzY/q6sRl4L/vEv3P0vhKanetgkZmVHW8ygU65wyWpEUbdKGa4 kgEZo60p90pWcCJ6vEL6M7o0+QvL2NK5N28MmU1QcSwEZjVZIfyIJyEcr3cy5K7ATjTb ZKI/ItfecoHnNMsyTygqC1R1CIAyiRMyOY3T8= 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=kJJ3xupGUlFiOidfUDv1mLPlbQoTHIt+m3Kqmq5FBUrXf1nL93Pq/U4cTWqIoIL5Tt nmlAUqJZPojICeRBeYsmgeAeu+wZjduga0Me4wFqcrZY0nJj1uIy+EqUxsnxIMxqEkqv kS9GX/IsUZVP8nj3o5Uu28hvPlU1DDjogkQwo= Received: by 10.150.59.2 with SMTP id h2mr2427849yba.68.1301163464081; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:17:44 -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 r18sm1981448yba.26.2011.03.26.11.17.42 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:17:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D8E2DC5.6000304@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:17:41 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.18) Gecko/20110325 Gentoo/2.0.13 SeaMonkey/2.0.13 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: <20110326174406.GA1665@gaurahari> In-Reply-To: <20110326174406.GA1665@gaurahari> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: bcff2b57f6eb0a216af4cd551616c8e5 Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: > In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > >> >> 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. :) > > The opposite can be said too. I seem to recall hal working for a lot of people but for me, it was a miserable failure and forced me into a hard reset. Just because something works for most people, doesn't mean it will for everyone either. If you lose data, it doesn't matter. LVM just adds one more layer of something to go wrong. Me, I don't need the extra risk of having a system that doesn't boot and a loss of data. I'm sure there are a lot of people that see it the way I do too. They just don't need the extra risk. Dale :-) :-)