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On Montag 24 November 2008, Dale wrote: |
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> Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |
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> > Am Montag, 24. November 2008 02:06:04 schrieb Dale: |
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> >> I think it is LVMS or something. Linux volume management system?? I |
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> >> think Redhat calls it EVMS or something. |
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> > Two things, (more ore less) one purpose: |
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> > 1) LVM: Logical Volume Management |
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> > 2) EVMS: Enterprise Volume Management System |
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> > 1) is used for management of Logical Volumes, organised in Volume Groups, |
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> > which could be spread accross one or more Physical Volumes. |
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> > @William: If one or more of the PVs is a Network Block Device, you're not |
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> > bound to the local machine. |
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> > |
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> > 2) From IBM, not RH. It's an umbrella for the whole storage management |
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> > chain from fdisk over (SW-) RAID and Logical Volumes to filesystem |
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> > creation and maintenance. |
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> > HTH... |
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> > |
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> > Dirk |
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> I knew it was something like that. I thought it was networkable but was |
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> not sure. You guys sure know more about that than I do. |
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- evms was used for a while by Suse - I don't know if they still do. |
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- there is a long lvm-is-broken-threadon f.g.o. |
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