Re: A file system like Digital's AdvFS

Larry Butler (larrybutler@earthlink.net)
Tue, 29 Jun 1999 22:45:02 -0600

Michael Marxmeier wrote:
...
>
> I beg to differ. Since physical allocation is transparent for
> the fs (it uses a virtual device) this is certainly possible.
> In fact LVM can even move blocks around transparently.
> It's more a matter of integrating lvm and the fs code to make
> use of this.

I wasn't aware that LVM could move blocks around while the file system was
mounted. Is this unique to the linux implementation? I was pretty sure that
it was not possible with at least some UNIX's implementations.

-Larry

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