On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hi,
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> >> blivet-gui works OK for some bits of LVM, it's a frontend for the same
> >> library used in anaconda, it depends on what functionality the
> >> Workstation people expect though, it doesn't for example support the
> >> use of things like LVM snapshots, roll back of snapshots etc.
> >
> > On a workstation or laptop, LVM's main use is to encrypt the disks.
>
> huh? you don't need lvm for disk encryption.
Well, you do need device mapper, for how we do encryption, though, and of course,
you can't have LVM without device mapper.
Well yeah but the point is "you don't need LVM for encryption" not
"you don't need device mapper for LVM".