[Gllug] was Nightmare now file systems

[robin.c.smith at bt.com]

This was not written by Nostradamus, every news group has debunked this one
today!

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Furey [mailto:simon at cadre.tv]
Sent: 12 September 2001 13:00
To: gllug
Subject: Re: [Gllug] was Nightmare now file systems


I'm not supersticious but...
> > > Nostradamus' prediction on WWIII:
> > >
> > > "In the year of the new century and nine months,
> > > From the sky will come a great King Of Terror.
> > > The sky will burn at forty-five degrees.
> > > Fire approaches the Great New City."
> > >
> > > "In the City of York there will be a great collapse,
> > > 2 twin brothers torn apart by chaos.
> > > While the Fortress falls, the Great Leader will succumb
> > > Third Big War will begin when the big City is burning"
> > >
> > > NOSTRADAMUS
> > >
> > > He said this will be bigger than the previous two.
> > > 2001 is the first year of the new century and this is the 9th month.
> > > New York is located at the 41st degree Latitude.
> > >
> > > If you care to examine the date, we would call it 11th September, or
> > > 11/9.
> > > Americans reverse this to 9/11, the number of their emergency service.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Trimmer" <simon at urbanmyth.org>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Gllug] was Nightmare now file systems


> On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, will wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Simon Trimmer" <simon at urbanmyth.org>
> > To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 12:13 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Gllug] Nightmare
> >
> >
> > > If you're talking about filesystems and SANs it's only a small step to
> > > include LVM and you have most of the storage technologies covered
> >
> > I have heard about 5 people mention Logical Volume Manager/ment in the
last
> > week but no-one mention it previously.  What is it, is it new and what
are
> > the benefits/disadvantages to using it?
>
> Erm,
>
> What? it basically makes virtual disks from physical disks and on the way
it
> can do nice things like software raid.
>
> New? not really, they have existed on traditional unix for years, Linux
> gained LVM a while back and made it into the kernel sometime last year.
For
> those interested, the model used in the Linux LVM is based on the v1 of
vxvm.
>
> Benefits? I'm going to lunch and am in a hurry, so I'll say "lots" and
fill
> in the details later :) I guess Linux LVM is the same, but I use the
> prototype vxvm, the major win on that is my volumes don't care what disk
they
> are generated from (fiber channel has a nasty habit of changing the disk
> detection ordering, sd(n) isn't necessarily the same between boots)
>
> -Simon
> Simon Trimmer <simon at urbanmyth.org>
>
>
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