[Gllug] was Nightmare now file systems

[David Irvine]

Simon Furey wrote:

>I'm not supersticious but...
>
I would be more inclined towards inspiration. Its amazing what leverage 
you have when you bring superstition in to the equation.

D

>>>>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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