Disk layout for XO-1.5

Martin Langhoff martin.langhoff at gmail.com
Sun Aug 2 19:34:26 EDT 2009


On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Paul Fox<pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
> sascha wrote:
>    <good stuff about LVM>
>
> thank you.  i was aware of LVM, but didn't realize it would accomplish
> quite what i was proposing.

Having used LVM, I am less that enthusiastic about it. It definitely
requires a lot of cooperation from the filesystem, the process is
cumbersome, and data-loss prone.

Maybe things have gotten wildly better. Maybe I am just a fool that
can't use software. But my experience has been less than rosy with it.

cheers,



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