Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 17:35:40 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: k.stevenson@louisville.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ufs/ffs resize? Message-ID: <19990627173540.J427@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <37239.930468789@verdi.nethelp.no>; from sthaug@nethelp.no on Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 09:33:09AM %2B0200 References: <19990626211259.B15044@homer.louisville.edu> <37239.930468789@verdi.nethelp.no>
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On Sunday, 27 June 1999 at 9:33:09 +0200, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: >>> Another datapoint ot consider, it seems that Linux (at least the derivative >>> version maintained by Alan Cox -- the other one :) ) has now grown an LVM >>> system (probably à la HP or AIX). That's what I've been told yesterday during >>> a small conference about Linux and free software in France (and where I did a >>> talk about FreeBSD *grin*). >> >> Hmmm. It might be from SGI. SGI has donated XFS to Linux and is actively >> marketing it on their Intel based systems. >> >> http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,36807,00.html?st.ne.fd.tohhed.ni > > As far as I know it's way too early for the Linux LVM to based on XFS, > since SGI hasn't even released the source code yet (just stated that > they intend to do so). There's another reason: XFS is a file system, not a volume manager. A volume manager is more like a disk than a file system. In fact, I've seen the Linux LVM before; it's been around for a while, but last time I looked at it I wasn't very interesting. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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