From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>
Cc: Brian Jackson <brian-kernel-list@mdrx.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<evms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Linux v2.5.42
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 17:57:06 -0200 (BRST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0210131755340.22735-100000@imladris.surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0210131545510.17395-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Mark Hahn wrote:
> > 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-13 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-12 17:14 Linux v2.5.42 Mark Peloquin
2002-10-12 19:34 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-12 19:37 ` jbradford
2002-10-13 23:55 ` Rob Landley
2002-10-13 12:41 ` [Evms-devel] " Michael Clark
2002-10-13 13:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-13 15:16 ` Michael Clark
2002-10-13 15:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-13 16:11 ` Brian Jackson
2002-10-13 16:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-10-13 17:06 ` Brian Jackson
2002-10-13 19:58 ` Mark Hahn
2002-10-13 19:57 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2002-10-13 20:26 ` Sean Neakums
2002-10-24 11:45 ` Alexander Kellett
2002-10-13 19:59 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-13 20:24 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2002-10-14 15:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-14 22:27 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2002-10-14 4:55 ` [Evms-devel] " Andreas Dilger
2002-10-13 17:46 ` Robert Love
2002-10-13 18:34 ` Brian Jackson
2002-10-14 4:23 ` [Evms-devel] " Andreas Dilger
2002-10-14 16:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-14 14:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-13 16:18 ` [Evms-devel] " Michael Clark
2002-10-13 17:10 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-13 17:41 ` Michael Clark
2002-10-14 4:43 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-10-14 16:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-14 15:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-14 14:42 ` Shawn
2002-10-14 15:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-14 14:20 ` Shawn
2002-10-14 16:15 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-14 21:34 ` Shawn
2002-10-14 16:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-14 16:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-14 21:47 ` Shawn
2002-10-15 7:42 ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen
2002-10-14 21:48 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-10-14 21:55 ` Shawn
2002-10-14 22:35 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-10-14 22:53 ` Shawn
2002-10-14 23:04 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-10-14 23:16 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-14 23:30 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-10-15 0:10 ` Andrew Clausen
2002-10-14 22:57 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-13 13:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-15 17:43 Mark Peloquin
2002-10-15 2:47 Paul McKenney
2002-10-14 17:37 Ben Rafanello
2002-10-12 20:20 Dieter Nützel
2002-10-12 22:19 ` Hans Reiser
2002-10-12 4:59 Linus Torvalds
2002-10-12 5:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-10-12 7:23 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-10-12 7:52 ` Andres Salomon
2002-10-12 9:23 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-12 9:11 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-10-12 9:24 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-10-12 9:41 ` Sam Ravnborg
2002-10-12 10:21 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-10-12 9:50 ` Matthias Andree
2002-10-12 11:11 ` jw schultz
2002-10-12 11:29 ` Andres Salomon
2002-10-12 11:46 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-12 11:40 ` jw schultz
2002-10-12 17:47 ` Jon Portnoy
2002-10-12 18:10 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-13 11:58 ` venom
2002-10-13 12:52 ` Michael Clark
2002-10-12 12:37 ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-10-12 13:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-12 19:39 ` Andres Salomon
2002-10-12 13:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-13 17:10 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-14 10:01 ` Joe Thornber
2002-10-14 19:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-14 19:32 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-14 22:28 ` Joe Thornber
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