Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-07 Thread Albert Hopkins
Most f the questions you have asked are really "LVM 101" type questions (not any particular implementation of LVM, but LVM in general). So yes, to use LVM/EVMS/whatever you sort of have to understand the underlying principle of what/why. There's a basic explanation at Wikipedia: http://en.wikiped

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-07 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Alexander Skwar wrote: Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What "VGA scan"? sorry, speech recognition error. WFM. You must be doing something strange. no, I'm what speech recognition researchers call a goat. I take your bright shiny toys, and just by holding them in my hands, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-07 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Alexander Skwar wrote: Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dirk Heinrichs wrote: heap. It's a classic example of "second system syndrome" as defined by "the mythical Man month". Errh, what? rtfb it was published in 1972, is still in print and the first five chapters are as relev

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Martin wrote: > >> drive. All I had to do was vgscan and vgchange -a y and I was up and >> running. Actually, I too had a problem with my VG's named the same >> thing. It wasn't a problem to access different LV's but I changed the >> VG anywa

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > >>> heap. It's a classic example of "second system syndrome" as defined by >>> "the mythical Man month". >> >> Errh, what? > > rtfb it was published in 1972, is still in print and the first five > chapters > are as relevan

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-06 Thread Alexander Skwar
Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:01:28 -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote: >> >>> If you machine dies and your backups are >>> "inadequate", you may want to try and recover the disc by putting it >>> into another system. How? If you didn'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 5. November 2007 schrieb James: > I have only used EVMS on a few occasions. I'd not be the one to maintain > this package.. Wonder why IBM pulled resources from it? Don't know. Maybe they thought it's feature complete and free of bugs. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Descript

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-05 Thread James
Dirk Heinrichs online.de> writes: > Well, it is currently unmaintained. But does this mean it's dead? I don't > think so. All it needs is a new maintainer. On to what ubuntu writes: > However, feel free to step up as a new maintainer > Dirk Hello, I have only used EVMS on a few occa