LVM not fit for Fedora Core

[Gilboa Davara]

On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 22:29 -0700, Lamont Peterson wrote:
> On Friday 22 December 2006 03:52pm, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 09:32 -0800, John Reiser wrote:
> [snip]
> > -grub- doesn't support LVM.
> > (Same goes for xfs, reiserfs and at least 95 other file systems)
> 
> On FC5 (this notebook):
> 
> # ls /boot/grub/
> default         fat_stage1_5      jfs_stage1_5    reiserfs_stage1_5  
> stage2.old
> device.map      ffs_stage1_5      menu.lst        splash.xpm.gz      
> ufs2_stage1_5
> device.map.old  grub.conf         menu.lst.old    stage1             
> vstafs_stage1_5
> e2fs_stage1_5   iso9660_stage1_5  minix_stage1_5  stage2             
> xfs_stage1_5
> 
> I see xfs and reiserfs there.  IIRC, both have been present in GRUB at least 
> as far back as RHL8.0, though xfs might not have appeared until FC2 (I don't 
> remember for sure, but I think it was there earlier).

I stand corrected then.
Last time I tried using boot on xfs (back in FC3) it failed miserably.
(root (hdx,x) failed to detect the stage 1.5)
Never the less, it does not change what I said.
Grub doesn't support software RAID5/6  - should I stop using them?

- Gilboa