From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 30 12:27:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA09304 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:27:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from siva (siva.captech.com [207.33.153.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA09287 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:26:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from siva.captech.com by siva (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA21052; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:24:40 -0700 Message-Id: <199609301924.MAA21052@siva> To: "Kevin P. Neal" cc: hackers@freebsd.org, tech@openbsd.org Subject: Re: VPS mailing list, BSD interest? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 28 Sep 1996 19:37:00 EDT." <1.5.4.32.19960928233700.0087ad8c@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:24:38 -0700 From: James Graham Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Kevin P. Neal" sez: # >Return-Path: cddukes@unity.ncsu.edu # >From: cddukes@unity.ncsu.edu # >Subject: VPS mailing list # >To: kpneal@pobox.com # >Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 18:43:56 -0400 (EDT) # > # >vps-devel@acm.uiuc.edu # >(And vps-devel-request to manipulate). # # Ok, my friend Chris Dukes wants a LVM-like thing for a free Unix. He's workin # g # with the Linux guys on creating one fairly similar to the one found on AIX. # # The question is, is anybody in the BSD world interested in such a thing? It # would allow lots of neat things, like extendable partitions. Mirroring # of logical partitions, etc. What, aside from extendable partitions, would LVM give us over CCD? --*greywolf;