Filesystem corruption - hard disk exploded!

[Volker Wysk]

Am Samstag, 29. Juni 2019, 13:03:31 CEST schrieb Liam Proven:
> On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 15:01, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> > Well, I want encryption of the whole system.
> 
> [...]
> 
> You could have just said "no", you know. :-)

Setting up encryption with Ubuntu is as simple as checking that little box in 
the installer.  Is that "gratuitously and pointlessly overcomplicated"?


> > and it works
> > really well.
> 
> Yeah, I don't think it does!

Yes, really. It works and it is fast. Must be set up anew when setting up a 
new system, but this takes five minutes, following my written self-
instructions. So I have done yesterday. No problems.

The best would be to integrate this in the *Ubuntu installer... 

> > By the way, LVM is rather simple and logical.
> 
> I document things like this for a living, and before I did that, I
> used to implement servers for significant mission-critical systems,
> among other things.
> 
> In my professional opinion: no, it isn't.

It's been a view years, since I've played around with LVM, but I found it 
straightforward. Nowadays I leave this stuff to the *Ubuntu installer.

> 
> Long ago, >20y ago, I bench-tested systems for a living. This is the
> first time I started studying filesystems, partitioning systems and so
> on, and writing about them. This is around the time that things like
> FAT with long filenames, FAT32 and so on started to appear. My systems
> had to share files between DOS, Win3, Win9x, NT and MacOS. I therefore
> had to become an expert.
> 
> A hobby of mine was to point out in print how companies has supplied
> systems with inefficient disk layouts.
> 
> Occasionally an angry supplier or vendor would come to me and complain
> about such things. They would talk about things like how putting swap
> on the outer cylinders of a drive caused a performance drop and other
> theoretical considerations.
> 
> It gave me considerable pleasure to set up demonstration systems and
> prove them wrong, to their face.

Hehe...

> Things have changed considerably and I no longer consider myself an
> expert in this, merely well-informed.
> 
> As such:
> 
> I think what you are doing sounds gratuitously and pointlessly
> overcomplicated and likely to cause problems.

But it's cool!  :-D

I think you have a point. I also have my own wiki and my own mail server. Both 
are not easy to set up, but when it's done, it works well. It isn't over-
complicated, as long as there is no new configuration needed, it just works.

You asked, if I would "consider switching to something much simpler". I've 
considered, but No, I won't. 

Don't let yourself be scared easily.

Cheers,
Volker