Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Apr 2007 18:49:56 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: I give up |
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On Apr 9 2007 11:37, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Monday 09 April 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: >>Gene Heskett wrote: >> >>No; device mapper is the kernel portion of LVM2. >> >> Jeff, who actively avoids LVM on home computers > >Ya shoulda warned me. :-) > >It should have lots bigger warning labels, in bright red self-illuminating >signs, than it does.
Actually, you have to blame some FC developer for making an LVM-based setup the _default_ for home installs (aka "FC", enterprise is RHEL/¢OS).
>It in fact seems to work well, but it is a major >breakage for some common apps, like doing backups...
dm is on 254 for me.. in opensuse with a 2.6.20 that is. I wonder why it even moves around. However, even then, those who use udev and device names rather than (major,minor) tuples should not have any problem.
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