Re: a filesystem for partitions

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Date: 08/12/03 

Date: 12 Aug 2003 15:55:16 GMT

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 14:27:33 +0000 (UTC) Frank Sweetser <fs@erwin.wpi.edu> wrote:
| phil-news-nospam@ipal.net <phil-news-nospam@ipal.net> wrote:
|> I have at times wanted to access partitions on devices which did not support
|> partitions:
|> floppy disk
|> CD rom
|> loop back devices
|> other partitions
|>
|> Adding the ability to partition anything can be a problem. It might be
|> better in devfs exclusively. But deciding on fixed major/minor nodes for so
|> many new partitions would eat up the device node space very quickly
|> (especially partitions of partitions carried a few levels deep).
|
| Why not just use LVM? Add the devices to a VG and make LVs out of it instead
| of creating a slew of block devices for each partition.

I have the understanding that LVM adds its own overhead to the storage space.
Or are you just saying to hack the LVM code to only make use of its device space? 

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