[mdlug] Completely replacing Windows XP Pro with Linux!

[Aaron Kulkis]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 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.
>

I'm pretty sure the gravity which is the key(*) to the fusion reaction powering
the whole thing is more reliable than any disk drive or SSD on the market....


(*) Although gravity is the next-to-weakest force (only the weak force is weaker),
stars are so massive they mere gravity is enough to force hydrogen nuclei close
enough to cause nuclear fusion.