Re: lvm in 2.4.0-test9pre5

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Fri Sep 22 2000 - 19:46:04 EST


On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 01:48:23PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> (and I think LVM can do striping too). Yes, they have different

Yes LVM does striping too (it overlaps with raid0 functionality provided
by MD).

> It makes sense to group them together. Neither is a true hardware
> driver, and they have many common goals.

Ok, I see your point of grouping them together.

So I think drivers/sm (Storage Management) would be cleaner. LVM and MD
are two implementations of Storage Management.

Even better:

        drivers/sm/lvm
        drivers/sm/md

Andrea
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