Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:18:37 +0100 | From | "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] LVM reimplementation ready for beta testing |
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On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 05:16:27PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > > > The LVM2 sofware no longer uses a particular driver which is just > > usable for its own purpose. > > It rather accesses a different, so-called 'device-mapper' driver, which > > implements a generic volume management service for the Linux kernel by > > supporting arbitray mappings of address ranges to underlying block devices. > > Because this is a generic service rather than an application within the kernel, > > it is open to be used by multiple LVM implementations (for eg. EVMS could be > > ported to use it :-) > > Interesting concept, but something like the "smitZ" interface to RAID and > sizing would be really nice to reduce training effort. Since IBM is > pushing Linux, take this as a HINT.
Hint is to user interface only or to in kernel ones as well?
> > -- > bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> > CTO, TMR Associates, Inc > Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
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