Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:17:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:17:35 -0500 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:18180 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:17:26 -0500 Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:16:27 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Davidsen To: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] LVM reimplementation ready for beta testing In-Reply-To: <20020201100303.A14415@sistina.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > The LVM2 sofware no longer uses a particular driver which is just > usable for its own purpose. > It rather accesses a different, so-called 'device-mapper' driver, which > implements a generic volume management service for the Linux kernel by > supporting arbitray mappings of address ranges to underlying block devices. > Because this is a generic service rather than an application within the kernel, > it is open to be used by multiple LVM implementations (for eg. EVMS could be > ported to use it :-) Interesting concept, but something like the "smitZ" interface to RAID and sizing would be really nice to reduce training effort. Since IBM is pushing Linux, take this as a HINT. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/