Re: Volume Managers in Linux

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Tue, 03 Nov 1998 18:55:24 -0500

In message <19981103201700.A1413@kotnet.org>, winmute writes:
+-----
| The concept is already explained by someone else. I didn't check it in detail
| but think it is ok.
|
| LVM can be implemented at two levels. There is roughly the way solaris does it
| and the way AIX does it. Solaris still keeps the partitioning system,
| AIX starts from a raw disk.
+--->8

Just to confuse things a bit more, it appears that the OS/2 implementation
of AIX's LVM (in the new OS/2 Warp Server beta) starts with partitions, not
raw disk. AIX can get away with raw disk because it's reasonable to expect
that there won't be any other OSes on the same machine... aye, there's the
rub. A raw-disk LVM will force Linux to be the only OS on the system.

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carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering			 KF8NH
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