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Subject: Re: [2.6] Most likely to be merged by Halloween... THE LIST
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
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On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 22:24, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> I, for one, would like to have the choice to use the AIX LVM format, and
> I'm sure that people thinking of migrating from HP/UX or whatever would
> want to be able to add support for their on-disk LVM format.  It really
> provides a framework to consolidate all of the partition/MD code into
> a single place (e.g. RAID, LVM, LDM (windows NT), DOS, BSD, Sun, etc).

The LVM format for AIX and so on call all be handled by LVM2

> EVMS also allows things like creating snapshots and resizing for
> partitions that were not originally set up as LVM volumes (i.e. you can
> "upgrade" your existing DOS partitions in-place to support LVM features
> instead of requiring a backup/restore cycle.

LVM2 has had this for months


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