From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove LVM from 2.5 (resend)
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 19:22:44 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0210021922200.13480-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021002231456.GA3000@clusterfs.com>
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Oct 02, 2002 23:46 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Absolutely - taking the core EVMS(say the core code and the bits to do
> > LVM1) and polishing them up to be good clean citizens without code
> > duplication and other weirdness would be a superb start for EVMS as a
> > merge candidate. The rest can follow a piece at a time once the core is
> > right if EVMS is the right path
>
> I actually see EVMS as the "VFS for disk devices". It is a very good
> way to at allow dynamic disk device allocation, and could relatively
> easily be modified to use all of the "legacy" disk major devices and
> export only real partitions (one per minor).
>
> You could have thousands of disks and partitions without the current
> limitations on major/minor device mapping.
>
> This was one of the things that Linus was pushing for when 2.5 started.
... and you don't need EVMS for that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-02 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-01 14:06 [PATCH] Remove LVM from 2.5 (resend) Joe Thornber
2002-10-01 14:15 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-01 14:52 ` venom
2002-10-01 15:48 ` Dave Jones
2002-10-01 16:06 ` Jens Axboe
2002-10-01 16:35 ` Joe Thornber
2002-10-01 16:41 ` Jens Axboe
2002-10-01 23:19 ` venom
2002-10-01 18:42 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2002-10-02 1:00 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-02 4:24 ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-10-02 13:34 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-02 14:54 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2002-10-02 17:09 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-02 22:29 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2002-10-02 22:46 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-02 23:14 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-10-02 23:22 ` Alexander Viro [this message]
2002-10-03 5:50 ` Michael Clark
2002-10-03 12:38 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-03 14:09 ` Michael Clark
2002-10-03 15:07 ` Shawn
2002-10-03 15:22 ` Michael Clark
2002-10-06 5:05 ` GrandMasterLee
2002-10-01 19:12 ` Matthias Andree
2002-10-01 23:25 ` venom
2002-10-01 17:09 ` Status of InterMezzo in 2.5 Andreas Dilger
2002-10-01 14:40 ` [PATCH] Remove LVM from 2.5 (resend) Jens Axboe
2002-10-01 14:54 ` Joe Thornber
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