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Subject: Re: [Evms-announce] EVMS announcement
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 21:11, Mike Diehl wrote:
> The biggest thing that EVMS had going for it was it's modular design.  As I 
> understand it, EVMS could even be used to manage the current MD and LVM 
> drivers.  I was looking forward to partition-level encryption, etc.  

Thats a seperate issue in the pile. You might want to do things like

			lvm2 volumes
                             |
                           RAID-5
                       /  |  \   \
                    4 encrypted volumes with different keys
                       |      |         |        |
                             4 NBD disk volumes over TCP
			    (or 4 iSCSI volumes)

                     4 physical disks in different jurisdictions


(and the physical disks or iscsi volumes might in fact be over lvm2 on
the othe end - its all a lot more modular than just volume management at
least at the kernel level - tools is different)



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