Re: Volume Managers in Linux
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
3 Nov 1998 21:15:46 GMT
Followup to: <199811030011.TAA29771@hilfy.ece.cmu.edu>
By author: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@kf8nh.apk.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> 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.
>
Not necessarily. If you want the filesystem to handle devices being
added or even removed, you need some integration into the filesystem.
It may be, though, that some should go into the RAID driver layer.
-hpa
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