[mdlug] Completely replacing Windows XP Pro with Linux!

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 23:07 -0400, Aaron Kulkis wrote: 
> Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > 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.
> LVM runs perfectly.. until it doesn't.

The same can be said of the sun.

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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam at whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA