Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Date | Wed, 2 Oct 2002 17:14:56 -0600 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Remove LVM from 2.5 (resend) |
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On Oct 02, 2002 23:46 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Absolutely - taking the core EVMS(say the core code and the bits to do > LVM1) and polishing them up to be good clean citizens without code > duplication and other weirdness would be a superb start for EVMS as a > merge candidate. The rest can follow a piece at a time once the core is > right if EVMS is the right path
I actually see EVMS as the "VFS for disk devices". It is a very good way to at allow dynamic disk device allocation, and could relatively easily be modified to use all of the "legacy" disk major devices and export only real partitions (one per minor).
You could have thousands of disks and partitions without the current limitations on major/minor device mapping.
This was one of the things that Linus was pushing for when 2.5 started.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
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