Well,
Here's something that I'm trying to get at, regardless if you go with EVMS
or LVM, either one will offer you all of the things which you listed. (Not
all are finished, on both parties, but they are planned)
--
Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ragnar Kjørstad [mailto:xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 3:54 PM
> To: Gonyou, Austin
> Cc: 'Ric Tibbetts'; Linux XFS Mailing List; JFS Discussion List
> Subject: Re: LVM on Linux
>
> Even for highend RAID's there are lots of reasons to use LVM/EVMS:
> * load balancing across multiple scsi-channels (not implemented yet)
> * Dynamic partitioning
> * Volumes spanning multiple physical devices
> * snapshotting.
>
> Basicly handling this is software adds a lot of flexibility.
>
>
>
> --
> Ragnar Kjorstad
> Big Storage
>
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