Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jun 1999 22:45:02 -0600 | From | Larry Butler <> | Subject | Re: A file system like Digital's AdvFS |
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Michael Marxmeier wrote: ... > > I beg to differ. Since physical allocation is transparent for > the fs (it uses a virtual device) this is certainly possible. > In fact LVM can even move blocks around transparently. > It's more a matter of integrating lvm and the fs code to make > use of this.
I wasn't aware that LVM could move blocks around while the file system was mounted. Is this unique to the linux implementation? I was pretty sure that it was not possible with at least some UNIX's implementations.
-Larry
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