From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 30 21:25:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA25064 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 21:25:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from friley216.res.iastate.edu (friley216.res.iastate.edu [129.186.78.216]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA25050 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 21:25:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from friley216.res.iastate.edu (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by friley216.res.iastate.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA01672; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 23:24:08 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199610010424.XAA01672@friley216.res.iastate.edu> To: Michael Hancock cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VPS mailing list, BSD interest? In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 01 Oct 1996 08:47:18 +0900. Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 23:23:53 -0500 From: "Chris Csanady" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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 >