Hmm, looks to me as if LVM's solving a slightly different problem in a sense - that of managing lotsa disks. For most non-server installations the problem is surely that we want to give all or part of the *one* disk "to linux" and frankly don't care too much about the further technical details...
- steve (Having said all this, its probable that LVM *does* solve the problem, but at the expence (for a sigle-disk box) of adding yet another layer of abstraction/complexity...) > -----Original Message----- > From: Carl Cerecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 11 February 2003 01:10 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Problems updating a kernel... > > > Steve Brorens wrote: > > > > By the way, this whole business of multiple filesystems and > having to > > preset the sizes is A Real Pain for users used to any other OS - is > > there any move to fix whatever obscure archaic reason there > once was > > for this requirement? > > > LVM in the 2.6 kernel should be the answer. > > google it to find out more. > > Cheers, > Carl. > > ========================================================= http://www.commarc.co.nz (This e-mail has been scanned by MailMarshal)
