Erik> If it is
Erik> anything like the AIX LVM, then you split all disks up into 4MB
Erik> chunks and allocate them to the filesystems any way you please.
Erik> That's a lot of little chunks, do you really want to handle them
Erik> in the filesystem?
And this is exactly what I, for one, hope we end up with. I expect
that the boot drive will probably still, in many cases, have to have
native partitioning on it so that booting will work[1], but all disks
after that should be in toto managed by the LVM as above. (Dual boot
scenarios will of course require more native partitioning, for the
benefit of the other OS(es). But that, like the possible need for
native partioning on the boot drive, that is just a legacy
compatability issue.)
[1] LILO, as an example, would have no problem booting a kernel if
/boot is contrained to the first several 4MB sections of the disk,
if those 4MB sections are kept contiguous and sequential, and if
LILO can get the physical block numbers from the LVM system.
Getting MILO loaded by your AlphaBIOS, OTOH, will probably require
a native partition. I'm not sure about SILO, and have no idea wrt
any of the other archs.)
-JimC
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