Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

[John Jolet <john@jolet.net>]

> What an unenlighten troll.  I have plenty of experience with AIX's  
> volume
> manager.  LVM2 can stand up to it any day.  As a matter of fact  
> Linux's LVM
> is about to completely surpass what is available in AIX.  LVM2 can  
> do cluster
> locking and management.  You can use LVM2 with Multipathing tools  
> just as you
> can under any commercial Unix.  LVM2 is more than ready for prime  
> time as can
> be seen by looking at RHEL and SLES distributions.
>
I think that comment is a bit extreme, don't you?

> Linux is not a toy and neither is LVM2.  It can be used as a toy or  
> a learning
> device, but it is not relegated to the closet of geeks.  And don't  
> get me
> started on AIX if you don't happen to have the OnlineJFS sets  
> installed.
> Also the draconian having to resize the filesystem by calculating  
> the number
> of 512 byte blocks in the filesystem.
>
yes, that was always a big complaint of mine.
> Do your homework please.  Just because you've dealt exclusively or  
> extensively
> with one flavor of *nix doesn't mean that others aren't up to the  
> task.  And
> just because it's IBM's Unix doesn't make it more or less ready for  
> the
> enterprise, it just makes it proprietary.  You'd do well to judge  
> based on
> features, capabilities and the completeness of the tools.
> -- 
Yes, I've supported just about every unix, not to mention every  
flavor of linux out there...for the past 16 years.  I AM judging on  
the features and capabilities and completeness of the tools.  My  
comments were meant as compliments for the progress of the tools from  
the old 2.2 kernel days, not an insult.  My apologies if i've hit a  
nerve of some sort.  However, that said.  I'd still prefer, all  
things considered, to support a volume under aix's lvm than the  
current lvm2 stuff.  However, I have NOT researched all the current  
options for lvm creation and management under lvm2.  I will admit  
that.  I wasn't trying to start a flamewar here, but I assure  
you....my homework has been done.
>

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