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> What, aside from extendable partitions, would LVM give us over CCD?
> 
> 				--*greywolf;

What, aside from lots of money, would going into business give us over
living in our parents basements?

8-).

Isn't extendable partitions enough?


How about relocatable PP's ("Physical Partitions"), so that you could
implement software fault tolerance and automatic data migration using
a hierarchical storage management schema?

How about a good platform for transaction processing?


CCD and LVM are only similar on their faces.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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