On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 07:19:16PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

>> > This has been hashed several times, and such a move isn't trivial to keep
>> > backward-compatibility. It's not something that can be done in a few weeks.
>> 
>> Ops, "few days" I meant.
> 
> You were right the first time. :-)

The "real solution" would be to have a volume manager (similar to IBM's
LVM, Vinum, etc.), rather than trying to hack the partitioning scheme.
Is there anyone out there working on such a beast? (Before you ask, I have
been contemplating such a project, but my employer and I are currently
discussing whether my off-hours work on one would conflict with my 
employment agreement (*blah*).)

David

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