Booting - Enterprise Volume Management System

[Alexander Skwar]

· Toby Kelsey <toby_kelsey at ntlworld.com>:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> Toby Kelsey <toby_kelsey at ntlworld.com> writes:
>> 
>> 
>>>but the "LVM is good for everybody, even laptop users" rhetoric I
>>>responded to was OTT.
>> 
>> 
>> I think calling a one-sentence opinion "rhetoric" is a bit OTT.
> 
> Perhaps.  My point was that LVM has limitations

Yes, it has. It cannot be used for filesystems on a "dual" boot
system which should be used for data exchange, as LVM can ONLY
be used with Linux. No other OS can read Linux LVM.

> and calling it "good for 
> everybody" is overselling it.  

Not really.

> Whether you call it a statement, claim or 
> rhetoric makes no difference. It wasn't meant to be a particularly harsh word.
> 
> In any case if the HOWTO is as outdated

It isn't outdated. The Howto is very much up to date, as LVM2
hasn't changed that much. I'm referring to the complete Howto,
not just the section "benefitsoflvmsmall.html". Eg., all of the 
Recipes and Common Tasks can still be used exactly as written
in the howto. It's especially those sections, that make the Howto
so good. Also the section "Anatomy of LVM" is very good. It's
well written and rather easy to understand.

The Howto clearly is *NOT* outdated.

Alexander Skwar
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