On Sunday, 27 June 1999 at 9:33:09 +0200, sth...@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 g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message