[Gllug] was Nightmare now file systems

[David Irvine]

Simon Trimmer wrote:

>Even so, likening LVM to WW3 is hardly fair
>

yes I doubt LVM is quite as bad as ww3 :D

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>-Simon
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>On Wed, 12 Sep 2001 robin.c.smith at bt.com wrote:
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>>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
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>>last
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>>>>week but no-one mention it previously.  What is it, is it new and what
>>>>
>>are
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>>>>the benefits/disadvantages to using it?
>>>>
>>>Erm,
>>>
>>>What? it basically makes virtual disks from physical disks and on the way
>>>
>>it
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>>>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
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>>>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
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>>>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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