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

Andreas Dilger (adilger@clusterfs.com)
Sat, 20 Jul 2002 19:47:14 -0600


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.

Cheers, Andreas

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