On Montag 24 November 2008, Dale wrote: > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Montag, 24. November 2008 02:06:04 schrieb Dale: > >> I think it is LVMS or something. Linux volume management system?? I > >> think Redhat calls it EVMS or something. > > > > Two things, (more ore less) one purpose: > > > > 1) LVM: Logical Volume Management > > 2) EVMS: Enterprise Volume Management System > > > > 1) is used for management of Logical Volumes, organised in Volume Groups, > > which could be spread accross one or more Physical Volumes. > > > > @William: If one or more of the PVs is a Network Block Device, you're not > > bound to the local machine. > > > > 2) From IBM, not RH. It's an umbrella for the whole storage management > > chain from fdisk over (SW-) RAID and Logical Volumes to filesystem > > creation and maintenance. > > > > HTH... > > > > Dirk > > I knew it was something like that. I thought it was networkable but was > not sure. You guys sure know more about that than I do.
- evms was used for a while by Suse - I don't know if they still do. - there is a long lvm-is-broken-threadon f.g.o.
