From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 7 12:27: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2A0014D2C for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 12:27:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id MAA05253; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 12:23:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id MAA14492; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 12:23:40 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id NAA25451; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 13:23:23 -0600 Message-ID: <370BA1EC.5EE0AA4B@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 12:20:28 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: justin@apple.com Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Esry Don-FDE005 , Greg Lehey , Ollivier Robert , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Separate boot partition? References: <199904071742.KAA05909@rhapture.apple.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Justin C. Walker" wrote: > > > From: "Daniel C. Sobral" > > > > 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). Or as in "In vino veritas." ;^) > And you're correct that IBM didn't *buy* the > implementation from Veritas. It's quite similar in idea, though. No, actually IBM *did* originally buy the volume manager bits from Veritas. They then took the additional step(s) of completely integrating volume management and journalling into their filesystem and making it the default. This was about AIX 3.0 or 3.1 timeframe, if memory serves correctly. I propose we should do the same with Vinum, pending agreement from Greg for technical porpoises and the owners of Vinum from a license standpoint. Adding disk space to a system is MUCH easier when you can throw a new drive onto the system, slice it up, and throw a slice into swap, another slice into /usr, and a third slice into /var without moving files or other chicanery. Greg, do you think this might be possible for 4.0 RELEASE? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message