Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
> Jeff V. Merkey writes:
> > NWFS can support up to 8 volume segments in a single Netware partition,
> > can have 4 NetWare partitions for a disk device, and all of these
> > segments can belong to the same volume, or all belong to different
> > volumes. A volume can be comprissed of up to 32 volume segments, and
> > these segments can reside across several disk drives. One of the
> > reasons it was done this way was to allow folks to easily "splice" extra
> > segments onto a NetWare volume to increase it's size if someone added a
> > disk to a system to get more storage.
>
> What this sounds exactly like is LVM built into the filesystem. In 2.3.99
> we have LVM as part of the base kernel, and it is also available as a
> kernel patch for 2.2, and even 2.0 (although I'm not sure if the 2.0 code
> is up-to-date in features with the newer releases).
>
>
NWFS has it's own LVM. I have not look closely at the LVM in Linux. I
will look at it -- it may make some sense to look at it if it does what
you say.
Jeff
>
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
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> \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
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