Tracy R Reed wrote: > Stewart Stremler wrote: >> Then you need to mess about with watching drive lights and running >> find or sync or something to remember what filesystem is on which >> drive. > > Only when you don't use LVM to manage all of your disks as a pool and > don't have RAID for redundancy. Otherwise you don't care and let the > software sort that out. > >> I like knowing that *this* partition is on *that* disk. > > Works fine for home use. When you have lots of disk you need to move to > a higher level of abstraction.
Something semantic would be useful, I suppose .. perhaps along the lines of jhriv's suggestion a couple messages back. Hmmm, before long we may need URIs for storage units, eh? ..which makes one wonder: if storage becomes more cloudlike can we then focus more on /what/ rather than /where/? Semantic storage? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
