> If I remember correctly, Gentoo doesn't automatically mount the /boot
> so if the system crashes, the /boot partition is left alone, no need
> for a mirroring system. At one point you couldn't boot from anything
> but ext2, but I think that is long gone.
I think the issue of booting from non-ext2 partitions was that the
modules for those have to be compiled into the kernel or need an initrd
to be able to read them. This isn't a distro specific problem.
> One thing I want to play with is LVM. I had set up my video server
> and didn't do LVM. Now I added a drive and had to change the setup
> slightly. With the LVM, I could have added the drive and extended
> the video partition to include it.
>
> Oh well, next time I upgrade that box.
Sounds interesting.
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