[linux-lvm] IBM's LVM?

Joe Thornber joe at fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk
Tue Aug 13 03:05:02 UTC 2002


On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:24:11AM +0200, Danilo Godec wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> There seems to be a new(?) Linux LVM implementation by IBM
> (http://evms.sourceforge.net/).
> 
> Is this a really different implementation or is it just the tools, GUIs
> and stuff around the current kernel LVM?

This isn't that new, though I think it only hit version 1.0 in the
last 6 months.  It is a totally different implementation, with some
features that LVM1 doesn't have.  LVM2 has a somewhat different
design philosophy from them, trying to minimise kernel code.

- Joe




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