On Dec 23, 2011, at 4:23 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Dec 23, 2011, at 3:47 PM, Scott Lewis wrote: >> >> Defend? No. There are tons of storage vendors. Apple isn't one. Few can be. >> That's why lh, equallogic, Compellent and 3par have all been acquired in the >> past few years. > > Storage management is not a 3rd party solution. It is something Apple would > have to provide. Very few people will trust logical volume management or a > file system from a 3rd party. It's questionable at best if such a thing would > have bootloader support. LVM is a kernel space implementation, it requires > integration with a device mapper. > > To get real management also means online volume resizing, online relocation > of data from one drive to another, and snapshots. I can't imagine a 3rd party > touching this who does not have the ability to issue a custom kernel.
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