[DSE-Dev] The future of the boot system in Debian

[Mike Hommey]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 03:35:41PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> > IME, simple initrds that don't really impact on your hability to boot
> > are fine (and great to load firmware, CPU microcode and kernel modules),
> > but anything else (like root on lvm or on non-auto-started md arrays)
> > will cause trouble sooner or later.
> 
> Root on LVM is good for backups and gives the potential for changing the size 
> of root with little inconvenience.

It also allows to move the root fs to another disk, on a live system.

Mike