[Discuss] Debian 11 -> 12

[invalid at pizzashack.org (Derek Martin)]

On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 03:07:27PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> Rich Pieri said on Mon, 20 May 2024 14:13:10 -0400
> 
> >On Sun, 19 May 2024 17:21:48 -0700
> >Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:
> >
> >> I think that is my essence of my complaint. Too complicated for
> >> someone who isn't studied in it.  
> >
> >This is a fair complaint. ZFS requires a mental and a temporal
> >investment. If you're not able to make that investment then stick with
> >ext4 on LVM.
> 
> Unless you're encrypting the root partition, I can't think of any use
> of LVM that can't be done other ways. I view LVM as yet another layer
> of abstraction and yet another way to lose your data.

I'm with Rich on this, for whatever that's worth...  LVM is pretty
ancient by now and has had lots of practical "testing" (by distros
using it by default for years now).  It makes managing your disk space
so much easier.  In systems that support hot-plugging disks you can do
most maintenance (replacing disks, growing logical partitions, etc.)
with no down time.

I have to admit to a bias here though... I came at this already having
experience in doing this professionally in the 90's with clusters of
HP-UX servers.  The Linux LVM implementation is modeled on HP's so I
was already familiar with it when Linux got it.  But honestly, the
interface isn't that hard to learn, and it's been solid for a long
time...

Side note:  I only just now noticed that the posting address on my
reply includes driftwood... does discuss at blu.org no longer work?  I'll
have to update my aliases.. =8^)

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