On Oct 3,  9:32pm, Greg Earle wrote:
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} If we're going to consider radical changes, why not go whole-hog and
} implement Veritas' VxVM and its abstraction away of the physical device layer?

     This is certainly a possibility and worth considering.  There
already is a project working on this idea.  It's called the "Vinum
Volume Manager".  The URL is http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html .

} P.S. Shouldn't this *really* be on tech-<somethingorother>?

     It probably shouldn't be anywhere.  This debate comes up every
few months and the content is pretty much the same.  Usually, I just
ignore it, but I was in the mood to raise a little rukus this time :->

P.S.  Could you keep your lines a little shorter so that they don't
wrap when quoted?

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