From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <gentoo-user+bounces-151102-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>
Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80])
by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DCD51381F3
for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 21:38:48 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B18DE0A70;
Sun, 29 Sep 2013 21:38:28 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from mail-wg0-f47.google.com (mail-wg0-f47.google.com [74.125.82.47])
(using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits))
(No client certificate requested)
by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 37A82E0999
for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 21:38:26 +0000 (UTC)
Received: by mail-wg0-f47.google.com with SMTP id f12so4687217wgh.26
for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:38:25 -0700 (PDT)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
d=gmail.com; s=20120113;
h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references
:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding;
bh=+5v/rifpUEwCjrhanfHj4L7zTdjvPriSz29NW6pHtjE=;
b=uHZDXqBHX6CNJynqfRx7i2ugr6m6t07KRfDBOvqhMFbHO8737oNtcjbAahaybbG1nT
t/HV2QgdljVZOa4ZftcUz0tfYofPVEXy+z67KQu8glIavJh0P2xalkWy04b8+Hs3nhMJ
rCiNxrLseE3uQmPrrbtuE1abNVxXDJgNM04pwXDfzli+11CvT5zuvzHTd44qLE2WhQOD
IvoLRvxII7oXrwVT5bNEyPCjXSPegsxiHK+uFA6Y//0JuzL3Pk1SoAInZnQ5p+5UOOcI
sZoZY2P0Wp4vYU8B3FHxE0bxVfcOZxWb5ivvrS5xjGeqrYtg43uuX5h+bZJ/g9NzBvgD
DF5Q==
X-Received: by 10.180.185.97 with SMTP id fb1mr11198918wic.61.1380490705801;
Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:38:25 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from [172.20.0.40] (196-210-102-121.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.102.121])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id b11sm19587846wik.1.1969.12.31.16.00.00
(version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128);
Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:38:25 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <52489CC3.6080003@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 23:33:55 +0200
From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0
Precedence: bulk
List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org>
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] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01
References: <5246BE35.3010408@libertytrek.org> <5246D674.1010806@hadt.biz> <5246F07F.8050100@gmail.com> <524716C0.203@hadt.biz> <52471D5B.2020506@gmail.com> <52483E04.4040900@libertytrek.org> <52484627.1020102@gmail.com> <5248656F.3060602@libertytrek.org> <524870B4.8090905@gmail.com> <52487531.8080902@libertytrek.org> <20130929212320.GA335@waltdnes.org> <20130929223230.39f4247a@digimed.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20130929223230.39f4247a@digimed.co.uk>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Archives-Salt: f70bd982-a16d-4b27-be8e-fcec296c3de6
X-Archives-Hash: a612c89cf0332b7f7844705b0ae008b7
On 29/09/2013 23:32, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 17:23:20 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
>> Here's my version of "LVM without the overhead of LVM" to allow
>> maximum flexibity, without the overhead of LVM.
>
> This gives you one of the advantages of LVM, the ability to use space on
> a single drive as your needs change. It doesn't allow you t use multiple
> drives, use different filesystems or filesystem options for different
> mount points, prevent one filesystem from stealing space from another
> (although you can do this with quotas) or use snapshots.
>
>
<thread_derail>
And it also prevents him from using The One True Filesystem That Will
Rule Them All and In the Darkness Bind Them:
ZFS
</thread_derail>
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com