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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To: James Graham <greywolf@siva.captech.com>
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On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, James Graham wrote:

> # The question is, is anybody in the BSD world interested in such a thing? It
> # would allow lots of neat things, like extendable partitions. Mirroring
> # of logical partitions, etc. 
> 
> What, aside from extendable partitions, would LVM give us over CCD?

The ability to resize partitions in itself is worthwhile.

JFS or VXFS-like, metadata logging for increased robustness and faster
reboots without the need for fsck in regular operation would also be nice.

Regards,


Mike Hancock