Re: _My_ turn for a 2.1 wishlist
Malcolm Beattie (malcolm.beattie@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk)
19 Jul 1996 09:16:51 GMT
In article <31ED9306.F85415C@majjas.com>,
Michael Breuer <mbreuer@majjas.com> wrote:
>Marco Mariani wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Arthur D. Jerijian wrote:
>>
>> > * Incorporate file-level compression into ext2fs. This is one feature
>> > I'd love to see in Linux 2.1.x.
>> >
>> > * Perhaps, incorporate ext2fs encryption and/or file undeletion.
>>
>> - A dynamic partitioning system, where I can decide that part of the disk
>> (in chunks of, say, 5MB) can be allocated to /usr or /home, whichever
>> of them fills up first.
>>
>> I've been told that this exists in AIX.
>
>Also HPUX ... it's called Logical Volume Manager (LVM).
Also Digital UNIX: LSM and AdvFS (the feature sets overlap a little).
--Malcolm
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Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>
Oxford University Computing Services
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