[mdlug] Completely replacing Windows XP Pro with Linux!

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Mon, 2014-07-21 at 22:53 -0400, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> Jonathan Billings wrote:
> > On Jul 21, 2014, at 6:36 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> >> If you use LVM, and make your physical disks physical volumes, you can
> >> just add them to a volume group and forget about locality altogether.
> >> No more fussing with partitions;  a world without partitions is a
> >> beautiful place.
> Now that you're using LVM, make absolutely sure that you do backups
> frequently AND 

Yep.

> that you test that you can recover from scrambled LVM data.
> 

Nope, don't care.  

And many systems using LVM in production, including my own workstation
and laptops - no LVM corruption yet.  And I'm aware of many much larger
and busier systems than mine - running LVM for years.  

IBM & RedHat endorse and support LVM.