On 3/5/24 09:55, Kent Borg wrote:
When I plug in one of my external backup disks my desktop software,
Mate (gnome fork from before they ruined the UI), helpful asks me for
the passphrase, which I like, I don't need to type fussy commands.
This dialog has three options:
- Forget password immed
On 5/22/24 12:07, Steve Litt wrote:
Unless you're encrypting the root partition, I can't think of any use
of LVM that can't be done other ways.
That's why I use it. Full disk encryption is a good thing. (Well, /boot
is still in the clear, so not quite full.)
I view LVM as yet another layer
Kent Borg wrote:
> The most intriguing btrfs, zfs, etc., feature that I have never played with
> is the ability to do snapshots. But that is also a scary feature, allowing
> me to have parallel universes, each complete in itself? And what happens
> when I get confused (or for some other reason) st
On Wed, 22 May 2024 15:07:27 -0400
Steve Litt wrote:
> 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.
My most common use case at work:
Add vDisk
On Wed, 22 May 2024 15:51:13 -0400
Dan Ritter wrote:
> In ZFS, you can promote a snapshot to being the True State of
> affairs, which rolls the system back to that consistent state.
This can be done with Btrfs as well. OpenSUSE integrate their Snapper
tool with Zypper to snapshot the system befo
On 5/22/24 12:51, Dan Ritter wrote:
Kent Borg wrote:
The most intriguing btrfs, zfs, etc., feature that I have never played with
is the ability to do snapshots. But that is also a scary feature, allowing
me to have parallel universes, each complete in itself? And what happens
when I get confused
On Wed, 22 May 2024 13:39:44 -0700
Kent Borg wrote:
> But I thought btrfs *did* allow CoW snapshots, and nested snapshots,
> and it seemed to me plenty of other footguns. I've never played with
It does, and there are some niche use cases for them.
> it, the fact that for the longest time btrfs'
Rich Pieri said on Wed, 22 May 2024 16:01:33 -0400
>On Wed, 22 May 2024 15:07:27 -0400
>Steve Litt wrote:
>
>> 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 lo
On Wed, 22 May 2024 21:22:30 -0400
Steve Litt wrote:
> True. I never thought of lots of NVMe drives.
It's not a common use case. One tends not to find compute servers
loaded with PCIe cards each worth at least as much as the entire rest
of the server.
>>I have seen filesystems (notably XFS and
