Lindsay Haisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:49:09 -0600:
> The impression I got was that EVMS was never intended to be competitive > with LVM, but was rather intended to be an umbrella disk management > system which would handle RAID, LVM, partitioning, etc - anything in > Linux which involves management of disk utilization. There are > basically two parts to EVMS. One is the management system itself, which > presents a published API. This was the central part of the project, as > I understood it. The EVMS devs also wrote a GUI to interact with the > API, which was both a proof of concept and a usable interface. There > are also CLI tools to manage EVMS, yes? Same API. So basically EVMS > was always focused at a higher level of management than is LVM. Thanks for expanding my knowledge. As I said, I've never tried EVMS, just used the lower level stuff, which worked fine once I actually took the time to read up on and familiarize myself with it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
