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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 11:34:49 +0200
From: Hendrik Visage <hvisage@envisage.co.za>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [Evms-devel] Re: [Evms-announce] EVMS announcement
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On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:21:20AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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

Quick question Alan: Are you saying that EVMS can't do this ??

Hendrik

>                              |
>                            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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