Re: [jira] Commented: (DERBY-239) Need a online backup feature that does not block update operations when online backup is in progress.

[Bryan Pendleton]

windows allows one to partition in software, I think included in the base OS. Can someone say if linux does or not (or at least a particular

version of linux).

Well, Linux has an extremely powerful component called the Logical
Volume Manager, which sounds like what you mean:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/whatisvolman.html

This has been widely available in Linux distributions for at
least 5 years or so.

bryan