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From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com>
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On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 07:47:14PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Jul 21, 2002  01:24 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Can it also do mirroring and RAID?  One of the features of AIX LVM is
> mirroring on a per-PE basis.  If LVM2 can do this, then great.

We have the mirroring target in device-mapper already working to do pvmove sane
shortly. Tool support for mirroring will follow in fall. The generic design
of device-mapper keeps it completely to the tools if you like per-PE mirroring.

> 
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
> 
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Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

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