Re: Partitioning schemes

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:14:53PM +0200, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> I.e. instead of having formats dictate the wedges, have LVM dictate the
> (hidden) backend encoding needed for say booting? While still have all the
> configurability like growing/shrinking/moving/joining etc?

That makes no sense. The fundamental idea behind LVM is to have an
extend based mapping layer, so that growing/shrinking/cow can be done
with constant time.

Joerg