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Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo@×××.com> posted |
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1170866949.5246.18.camel@×××××××××.localdomain, excerpted below, on Wed, |
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07 Feb 2007 10:49:09 -0600: |
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> The impression I got was that EVMS was never intended to be competitive |
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> with LVM, but was rather intended to be an umbrella disk management |
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> system which would handle RAID, LVM, partitioning, etc - anything in |
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> Linux which involves management of disk utilization. There are |
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> basically two parts to EVMS. One is the management system itself, which |
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> presents a published API. This was the central part of the project, as |
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> I understood it. The EVMS devs also wrote a GUI to interact with the |
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> API, which was both a proof of concept and a usable interface. There |
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> are also CLI tools to manage EVMS, yes? Same API. So basically EVMS |
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> was always focused at a higher level of management than is LVM. |
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Thanks for expanding my knowledge. As I said, I've never tried EVMS, just |
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used the lower level stuff, which worked fine once I actually took the |
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time to read up on and familiarize myself with it. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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