Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 09:25:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Bob Willcox <bob@pmr.com>, "Justin C. Walker" <justin@apple.com> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Esry Don-FDE005 <Don_Esry-FDE005@email.mot.com>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Separate boot partition? Message-ID: <19990411092544.T2142@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990410145704.B25635@luke.pmr.com>; from Bob Willcox on Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 02:57:04PM -0500 References: <199904071742.KAA05909@rhapture.apple.com> <19990410145704.B25635@luke.pmr.com>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Saturday, 10 April 1999 at 14:57:04 -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 10:42:06AM -0700, Justin C. Walker wrote: >>> >>> Esry Don-FDE005 wrote: >>>> >>>> I believe that IBM, HP, and Sun all buy their LVM from Veritous. >>>> Hopefully I am close enough in spelling that you can figure it >>>> out. >>> >>> I don't believe that's the case with IBM. I have been known to be >>> wrong before, though... >> The company name, I think, is Veritas (as in Veritas Vos >> Liberabit). And you're correct that IBM didn't *buy* the >> implementation from Veritas. It's quite similar in idea, though. > > I was under the impression that the IBM design predated Veritas', though > I could be mistaken. Design for IBM's volume manager began in 1987 and > was first introduced with AIX 3.1 on the RS6K (1990, I believe). This looks earlier than Veritas. IIRC Veritas is what's left of one of Tandem's competitors of the late 80's (Tolerant, I think), and when they gave up as a computer manufacturer, they started marketing their software. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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