On Sunday, 27 June 1999 at 9:33:09 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> Another datapoint ot consider, it seems that Linux (at least the derivative
>>> version maintained by Alan Cox -- the other one :) ) has now grown an LVM
>>> system (probably à la HP or AIX). That's what I've been told yesterday during
>>> a small conference about Linux and free software in France (and where I did a
>>> talk about FreeBSD *grin*).
>>
>> Hmmm. It might be from SGI. SGI has donated XFS to Linux and is actively
>> marketing it on their Intel based systems.
>>
>> http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,36807,00.html?st.ne.fd.tohhed.ni
>
> As far as I know it's way too early for the Linux LVM to based on XFS,
> since SGI hasn't even released the source code yet (just stated that
> they intend to do so).
There's another reason: XFS is a file system, not a volume manager. A
volume manager is more like a disk than a file system.
In fact, I've seen the Linux LVM before; it's been around for a while,
but last time I looked at it I wasn't very interesting.
Greg
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