Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 23:29:18 +1000 From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org, jrg@demon.net (James R Grinter) Subject: Re: VPS mailing list, BSD interest? Message-ID: <199610021329.XAA26262@eterna.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Oct 1996 22:18:58 %2B1000." <19961002122045.10578.qmail@mail.NetBSD.ORG>
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+----------------------------------+ | FFS/UFS/NTFS/LFS/VXFS/EXT2/... | +------------------+---------+-----+ | | LVM | | | disks +---+-----+ CCD | | | | | hd* sd* xd* +-----------+ | | +----------------------------------+ i like this. what we need to do is have ccd and lvm be layers, with the disks being the bottom, the ccd being next, lvm (or what ever, i don't like that name :-) and then the file systems, with the ccd or lvm or filesystems. oh, and i'd actually add this layer as well: +---------------------------------------------+ | raw devices | +---------------------------------------+ r | | FFS/UFS/NTFS/LFS/VXFS/EXT2/... | a | +-----------------+----------+----------+ w | | | LVM | | | | disks +----+-----+ CCD | d | | | | e | | hd* sd* xd* +----------------+ v | | | s | +---------------------------------------+ | | FFS/UFS/NTFS/LFS/VXFS/EXT2/... | | +------------------+---------+----------------+ that is, raw devices can be at any layer as well. you may want to get securelevel in on this of course, but the access should be allowed. How the device names are organised should be immaterial, IMHO. just as long as it is sane. :-) (Well, except if you have FreeBSD 2.2 :-) tell us netbsd people more ..?
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