Re: Volume Managers in Linux

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Wed, 4 Nov 1998 12:55:06 -0500 (EST)

[snip]
> Kongress in Germany i dreamed of a simple install with removed complexity
> where most of the Newbies fail - Partitioning. Think of having an installation
> where you ONLY have to choose the harddrive and possibly ONE partition and
> the installer will automatically create a /usr /tmp /var /home / and swap
> logical volume(s) and the user does NOT have to care on choosing the sizes
> for those because they will be increased on installation automatically
> (If we have an LVM AND resizeable filesystems)

For workstations.. Just make one: /

[snip]
> You sure need big file support bug i think big file support is something
> for BIG SERVERS serving Databases with >2GB Data volume. This is
> 5000 serves in the World - End users you have millions nowerdays.

I've run into it on three ocasions.. Once I was working on a MRI
volumeteric dataset.. And the other two times I was dealing with
multimedia data.. 2gb limit is a problem on workstations more then
servers, as server apps can work around it easier.. (I've had a postgres
database with more then 2gigs if data in it.. but it uses multiple files.)

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