Felipe Figueiredo wrote: > John, > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:21 PM, John Moser<john.r.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Luke L<lukehasnon...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> How many of these things are actually going to make it into Karmic? A >>> dynamically sized swap file? GRUB 2 residing on its own partition, >>> etc? These things sound good. >>> >> >> GRUB2 on its own partition is silly. Like having a separate /boot. >> What problem are you trying to solve? > > To name one problem, people who use LVM can't use GRUB because it > doesn't support LVM block devices.
Only partly true. I've used LVM for years but kept / off the LVM. One reason for a separate boot partition was to enable the root filesystem also to be on LVM. > >>> Also, would a dedicated GRUB2 parition be able to exist on LVM/raid? >>> Just curious. >>> >> >> Who cares? > > LVM is good enough to benefit even home users. I know there's at least > one spec considering LVM by default, so people must care about it. Sure people care about LVM - but whether you can put a Grub2 partition on it seems immaterial. -- derek -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
