Re: Volume Managers in Linux
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Mon, 02 Nov 1998 19:11:39 -0500
In message <19981102235619.B1797@quit.mediaways.net>, Florian Lohoff writes:
+-----
| On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 03:57:20PM -0600, Shawn Leas wrote:
| > not a mechanism by which filesystems are resized. Rather, it
| > provides a way to GRACEFULLY combine multiple physical volumes
| > into a virtual contiguous logical volume, and gives a STANDARD
| > interface to applying alocation policies and even RAID.
|
| Yep - And even this Ted thought of beeing integrated into the ext234
| filesystem
+--->8
Erk. Logical volume management doesn't belong in the filesystem; it's a
device-like layer, not a filesystem-like layer.
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