> > Wouldn't you like to push all that crap out to userspace?
>
> If you are serious about RAID in userspace, go away. I'll assume you
> didn't really mean to type that.
Well... Software RAID performance suxorz anyway, but I absolutely
retract my not-so-thought-out just PUSHING RAID into userland
ideas...
Now that you mentioned the microkernel-likeness of some of the
stuff I was saying, I'm understanding you.
> It might be nice to put partition code in initdata+userspace,
> with the main kernel only using a mapping that was provided.
>
> > Both Sun and HP use Veritas's LVM.
> > (http://www.veritas.com/product-info/vm/index.htm)
> >
> > Heinz's LVM is concepually like it, I think.
> > (http://linux.msede.com/lvm/slides.html)
>
> If you want to write something like Veritas's LVM, make it compatible
> at the physical disk level so that we can read foreign data. Either that,
> or be compatible with NT. The PC partition system is going to be eliminated.
> We don't really need our own incompatible LVM.
Wouldn't administratively compatible be sufficient? Heinz's
is almost identical to Veritas's.
-Shawn
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