Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:16:27 -0500 (EST) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] LVM reimplementation ready for beta testing |
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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.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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