On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Greywolf wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> I suppose, with the faster processors/disks, that this wouldn't be a
> problem, but unless it gets read into the kernel somewhere for lookups,
> wouldn't multiple layers of indirection be ... well, not prohibitive,
> exactly, but, excessive?

All the indirection would be in the kernel, and be as expensive as RAID is
now. The LVM programs in userland configure the different LVs in the
kernel.

Take care,

Bill