Hello
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 03:12:13AM +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
* defect management directly on block basis (w/o additional
stacking layers).
IMO dividing things into layers/parts is good. It allows for replacing
one layer, or not using some of them if they are not needed.
*
Hi folks,
after reading several articles about Mainframes and similar archs
(even ancient ones like B7000), I wonder if Linux world could
learn something from there.
One very interesting point (IMHO) is the storage abstraction.
AFAIK, Mainframes work on one large virtual memory (disks for
Enrico Weigelt wrote:
Hi folks,
after reading several articles about Mainframes and similar archs
(even ancient ones like B7000), I wonder if Linux world could
learn something from there.
One very interesting point (IMHO) is the storage abstraction.
AFAIK, Mainframes work on one large
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 16:03 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
Hi folks,
after reading several articles about Mainframes and similar archs
(even ancient ones like B7000), I wonder if Linux world could
learn something from there.
One very interesting point (IMHO) is the storage abstraction.
On Monday 24 March 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
Hi folks,
after reading several articles about Mainframes and similar archs
(even ancient ones like B7000), I wonder if Linux world could
learn something from there.
One very interesting point (IMHO) is the storage abstraction.
AFAIK,
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 24 March 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
One very interesting point (IMHO) is the storage abstraction.
[snip]
I'm currently planning to implement an similar approach for Linux
(at least virtual block devices).
You might want to check out Plan 9 from Bell
* Chris Frederick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Check out LVM (Logical Volume Manager)
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml
Yes, at least for the storage stuff, LVM2 can do much of this.
But my ideas go some steps futher, eg:
* mapping blocks instead of larger
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