Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Oct 2002 19:22:44 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Remove LVM from 2.5 (resend) |
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On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 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.
... and you don't need EVMS for that.
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