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Subject: Re: [Evms-devel] Re: [Evms-announce] EVMS announcement
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Hendrik Visage <hvisage@envisage.co.za>
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On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 09:34, Hendrik Visage wrote:
> 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 ??

The "one driver" model doesnt scale to it sanely. The EVMS tools
certainly can

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