Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 23:23:53 -0500 From: "Chris Csanady" <ccsanady@friley216.res.iastate.edu> To: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VPS mailing list, BSD interest? Message-ID: <199610010424.XAA01672@friley216.res.iastate.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 01 Oct 1996 08:47:18 %2B0900. <Pine.SV4.3.93.961001084116.20941A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
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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. This would be nice. Terry Lambert mentioned that he had implemented a read only version of JFS, perhaps this would be a good start? Does JFS also use linear directory structures though? I noticed while reading through some docs on XFS, that it implemented directories as b-trees. Im not quite sure how one would implement this, but it sure seems like it would be a win.. Chris Csanady > >Regards, > > >Mike Hancock >
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