Re: [2.6] Most likely to be merged by Halloween... THE LIST

[Alan Cox]

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