From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 10 16:58: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D637D15129 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 16:58:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA03692; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 09:25:45 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA38079; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 09:25:44 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990411092544.T2142@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 09:25:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Bob Willcox , "Justin C. Walker" Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Esry Don-FDE005 , Ollivier Robert , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Separate boot partition? References: <199904071742.KAA05909@rhapture.apple.com> <19990410145704.B25635@luke.pmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19990410145704.B25635@luke.pmr.com>; from Bob Willcox on Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 02:57:04PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Saturday, 10 April 1999 at 14:57:04 -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 10:42:06AM -0700, Justin C. Walker wrote: >>> >>> Esry Don-FDE005 wrote: >>>> >>>> I believe that IBM, HP, and Sun all buy their LVM from Veritous. >>>> Hopefully I am close enough in spelling that you can figure it >>>> out. >>> >>> I don't believe that's the case with IBM. I have been known to be >>> wrong before, though... >> The company name, I think, is Veritas (as in Veritas Vos >> Liberabit). And you're correct that IBM didn't *buy* the >> implementation from Veritas. It's quite similar in idea, though. > > I was under the impression that the IBM design predated Veritas', though > I could be mistaken. Design for IBM's volume manager began in 1987 and > was first introduced with AIX 3.1 on the RS6K (1990, I believe). This looks earlier than Veritas. IIRC Veritas is what's left of one of Tandem's competitors of the late 80's (Tolerant, I think), and when they gave up as a computer manufacturer, they started marketing their software. 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