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To: James Graham <greywolf@siva.captech.com>
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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 21:41:03 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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In message <199609301924.MAA21052@siva>, James Graham writes:
># 
># Ok, my friend Chris Dukes wants a LVM-like thing for a free Unix. He's worki
>n
># 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. 

Yes we want this.

>What, aside from extendable partitions, would LVM give us over CCD?

Architecture instead of hacks.

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