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From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au>
Subject: Re: Volume managers (was: Separate boot partition?)
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Remy Nonnenmacher <remy@synx.com> wrote:
>Think about it : A set of SCA, hot-pluggable disks. Every fs movable,
>resizable (up/down), every disk content movable from/to every other
>one.... the perfect power-on once, run till-end-of-universe server.

Not quite.  The [amc]time stamps in the inode run out in 2038. This
was discussed at length here last year (without any satisfactory
solution).  (For one possible solution, check out RFC2550).

Peter


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