From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 11 16:17:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from luke.pmr.com (luke.pmr.com [207.170.114.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4EE115020 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 15:53:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bob@luke.pmr.com) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.pmr.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) id IAA33528; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 08:19:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob) Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 08:19:51 -0500 From: Bob Willcox To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Bob Willcox , Greg Lehey , Dom Mitchell , Wes Peters , justin@apple.com, Esry Don-FDE005 , Ollivier Robert , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Volume managers (was: Separate boot partition?) Message-ID: <19990411081951.A33484@luke.pmr.com> Reply-To: Bob Willcox References: <19990408084822.X2142@lemis.com> <19990408173016.X2142@lemis.com> <19990410150702.D25635@luke.pmr.com> <37101FC3.FC873691@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <37101FC3.FC873691@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 01:06:28PM +0900 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Bob Willcox The man who follows the crowd will usually get no bob@luke.pmr.com further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is Austin, TX likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. -- Alan Ashley-Pitt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message