Subject: Re: Logical Volume Management for NetBSD
To: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
From: Jonathan A. Kollasch <jakllsch@kollasch.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/16/2006 23:05:10
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On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 03:15:09PM -0700, John Nemeth wrote:
>      Probably need to write it from scratch.  It may need changes to
> the disk drivers (i.e. the concept of partitions goes out the window),

How can that work?  Non-contiguous area?

> and will require an intermediate layer between the filesystems to map
> logical volumes to physical disk space.  To do it properly will also

We've had a layer like that since 3.0 with dk(4).

> require filesystem changes to enable resizing on the fly.  If you've
> ever used a real LVM, you will know that it is a pretty complex beast.

Yikes!

	Jonathan Kollasch

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