From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 7 14: 3:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from kalypso.cybercom.net (kalypso.cybercom.net [209.21.136.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6EC714D2F for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 14:03:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ksmm@threespace.com) Received: from localhost (ksmm@localhost) by kalypso.cybercom.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA14785 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 17:01:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 17:01:17 -0400 (EDT) From: The Classiest Man Alive X-Sender: ksmm@kalypso.cybercom.net To: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Separate boot partition? In-Reply-To: <199904072032.NAA24606@rhapture.apple.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Justin C. Walker wrote: : > 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. : My recollection is from talking with the Veritas folks several : years back, and that's what they told me. Over time, of course, the : bits get fuzzier, until it's hard to tell the zeros from the ones :-} This is not correct. Despite the similarities between IBM's volume manager and VERITAS' own, IBM wrote theirs independently. From what I've heard it has very similar functionality, but it has always been a separate product. K.S. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message