[Gllug] was Nightmare now file systems

[Simon Trimmer]

Even so, likening LVM to WW3 is hardly fair

-Simon

On Wed, 12 Sep 2001 robin.c.smith at bt.com wrote:
> 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:
> > 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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-Simon
Simon Trimmer <simon at urbanmyth.org>



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