> > Yes I do realize that, but I think EVMS offers more in the long run than any
> > of the others.
>
> not to put too find a point on it, but IBM has their own goals. for
> instance, some part of EVMS design is motivated by IBM's political
> desire to permit its bank customers, who have horrible old OS/2 systems,
> to transparently use OS/2 volumes. it's not as if IBM couldn't provide
> a simple, user-level migration tool.
You don't need a migration tool.
All you need is:
1) a kernel level driver that can map devices, ie. a device mapper
2) user space tools that can parse the volume metadata and tell the
kernel how to map each chunk at initialisation or mount time
You don't need a flying circus in kernel space.
regards,
Rik
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