Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 08:19:51 -0500 From: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Bob Willcox <bob@pmr.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Dom Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, justin@apple.com, Esry Don-FDE005 <Don_Esry-FDE005@email.mot.com>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Volume managers (was: Separate boot partition?) Message-ID: <19990411081951.A33484@luke.pmr.com> In-Reply-To: <37101FC3.FC873691@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 01:06:28PM %2B0900 References: <19990408084822.X2142@lemis.com> <E10V9bs-0009Ag-00@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> <19990408173016.X2142@lemis.com> <19990410150702.D25635@luke.pmr.com> <37101FC3.FC873691@newsguy.com>
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On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 01:06:28PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> Bob Willcox wrote:
> >
> > Another anecodotal aside, in AIX there was always someone asking for
> > this same functionality. Though Al Chang (author of IBM's JFS and VMM
> > in AIX) thought that it could be done, it would be quite difficult and
> > the risk of data loss would be very high. As far as I know, it was never
> > implemented.
>
> A third-party product was available for doing that, but not on-line.
Doing it off-line isn't nearly as challenging (or interesting) and
wasn't what people were wanting at the time.
Bob
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