From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L4V5f-0005pa-GC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:38:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 30D35E04B7; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:38:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f17.google.com (mail-gx0-f17.google.com [209.85.217.17]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0618BE04B7 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:38:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk10 with SMTP id 10so887389gxk.10 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:38:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=yK6gILg/0l8EfU/9oABWTldswLYIZ0RDgfKsNxliR0Y=; b=IITcuB12f74Ji6DntLS6bhHtwSYfdWdG4NPWMCdMcGq+/3LrJ60gTroCH7npvvwaB1 ODV33PCMyi528k4+Jrw3VL7RQzRyEdK4PAW9FwE5h51xZZc3+MbK/3LiHVgU1tEuByIQ bwmSXKbI2YAXjnMVfiBN3UpNmH9UKKgCUJJs4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=g4E8bwxnfgaLYmLopi82uDFjnJdF20vLxFMkWZs+WXt1UTX2yxfdoyQjGUJfLXRxyE QWMTNYw58UukoDyRB/rAHldwvcIu1dog3mfc1Td0c1gCU3ztMjXMwQrySULm+2NjoQwU FERcMqfX0cQOU6zjkXfLzA1ht6oteltskOcWk= Received: by 10.65.119.14 with SMTP id w14mr3031160qbm.18.1227508710659; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:38:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.230.99.186? (dialup-4.230.99.186.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.230.99.186]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k7sm4134945qba.3.2008.11.23.22.38.27 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:38:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <492A4BD6.8050007@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:38:14 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems References: <1227479490.26615.47.camel@rattus> <1227481255.15794.2.camel@saive.lan> <4929FDFC.9030104@gmail.com> <200811240728.33225.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> In-Reply-To: <200811240728.33225.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3f492f51-ba43-4038-a9f4-4168b9cfd6cb X-Archives-Hash: 99cbbbea5be76e7c261f0cbbfa1d4e98 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Montag, 24. November 2008 02:06:04 schrieb Dale: > > >> I think it is LVMS or something. Linux volume management system?? I >> think Redhat calls it EVMS or something. >> > > Two things, (more ore less) one purpose: > > 1) LVM: Logical Volume Management > 2) EVMS: Enterprise Volume Management System > > 1) is used for management of Logical Volumes, organised in Volume Groups, > which could be spread accross one or more Physical Volumes. > > @William: If one or more of the PVs is a Network Block Device, you're not > bound to the local machine. > > 2) From IBM, not RH. It's an umbrella for the whole storage management chain > from fdisk over (SW-) RAID and Logical Volumes to filesystem creation and > maintenance. > > HTH... > > Dirk > > > I knew it was something like that. I thought it was networkable but was not sure. You guys sure know more about that than I do. Dale :-) :-)