Explain why to not use LVM

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diff --git a/install-directions.txt b/install-directions.txt
index d459737..27050a2 100644
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+++ b/install-directions.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ hopefully this will get "silently fixed" over time.
 
 * You may need to upgrade your BIOS.  That can be tricky for Dell machines if the BIOS is larger than a floppy (of if you have no floppy).  One simple approach is to create a "DOS" bootable USB stick.  A simple approach is to use the Dell "Diagnostics Utility": http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&fileid=216318  Here's another approach, which works on some systems but fails on others: You can create a FreeDOS USB stick as described in http://rene.rebe.name/2009-04-19/creating-a-bootable-freedos-usb-stick-thumb-drive by using QEMU to "boot" a CD image, and tell it that the USB stick is the hard drive to install to, as follows on a Linux system (after downloading the FreeDOS ISO CD image): "qemu-system-x86_64 -hda /deb/sdb -cdrom fdbasecd.iso -boot d".  Then copy the BIOS images to the stick, boot the stick, and run the BIOS updater.  Warning: DO NOT upgrade Optiplex GX620 to BIOS version A11, any USB keyboard/mouse will fail to work properly (back off to A10).
 
-* Install Fedora 11 (x86_64):  Take the standard settings, minimal install, EXCEPT for the the drive layout. THIS IS CRITICAL, because the Xen Linux kernel cannot read ext4 filesystems, and Fedora 11's default format is ext4.  At the point where it has you select the drives you will need to tell the system you want to format the drives ext3 rather than ext 4.  This can be accomplished by using the manual review of layout or by using the drop down bar at the top and selecting the custom option.  Also, you should probably use separate partitions for /boot, /, and swap, WITHOUT using volumes (e.g., don't use LVM) or the device-mapper (this keeps things simple).  Leave lots of extra disk space, so you can use raw partitions for some of the guests (they are faster).  Do NOT press a button in the Fedora 11 installer (anaconda) until the screen redraw is complete (Fedora 11's anaconda is sensitive and can sometimes crash if made to go too fast).  Turn off the "Office and producitivity" group - we don't need those, they will just slow down install.
+* Install Fedora 11 (x86_64):  Take the standard settings, minimal install, EXCEPT for the the drive layout. THIS IS CRITICAL, because the Xen Linux kernel cannot read ext4 filesystems, and Fedora 11's default format is ext4.  At the point where it has you select the drives you will need to tell the system you want to format the drives ext3 rather than ext 4.  This can be accomplished by using the manual review of layout or by using the drop down bar at the top and selecting the custom option.  Consider using separate partitions for /boot, /, and swap, WITHOUT using volumes (e.g., don't use LVM) or the device-mapper; this should work with them, but NOT using them eliminates a potential cause of problems and keeps things simple. Leave lots of extra disk space, so you can use raw partitions for some of the guests (they are faster).  Do NOT press a button in the Fedora 11 installer (anaconda) until the screen redraw is complete (Fedora 11's anaconda is sensitive and can sometimes crash if made to go too fast).  Turn off the "Office and producitivity" group - we don't need those, they will just slow down install.
 
 * DO NOT install the virtualization programs (they'll interfere with our install).
 
@@ -480,4 +480,19 @@ view.h
 xen-server.c
 
 Source files used for multiplex:
+comm-client.c
+comm-client.h
+comm-keyboard.c
+comm-keyboard.h
+comm-mouse.c
+comm-mouse.h
+comm-setup.c
+comm-setup.h
+comm-structs.h
+lxevent.h
+multiplex.c
+sctp.h
+
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