On Sep 19, 2011 10:07 PM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My preference is to get rid of this whole artifical > disk/block-device/partition/pv/vg/lv nonsense and have one layer that > does it all. I really don't see the point in persisting with keeping > knowledge of distinct disks all the way through the stack, all of that > should just be abstracted into "storage" that can have rules attached > where you specify how you want stuff to behave (like mirroring and > striping). > > As it is, each layer is a very thin wrapper around a physical object > and we only lose that distinction when we create lvs. Even though I > understand how the whole stack works, it's still hard to visualize (5 > layers!) and consumes way too much time explaining it to people. All > rather unnecessary. > > I had high hopes that ZFS would take us to a new place where all that > would be possible. >
Sounds like you need a SAN Storage solution like NetApp or HDS :-) Heck, OpenFiler is a surprisingly good solution; it's now being used in production in my company's subsidiary. Rgds,
