Re: a filesystem for partitions

From: Frank Sweetser (fs_at_erwin.wpi.edu)
Date: 08/12/03 

Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:36:23 +0000 (UTC)

phil-news-nospam@ipal.net <phil-news-nospam@ipal.net> wrote:
>| 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?

Yes, LVM uses space - but so does a partition table. This has the advantage
that you don't have to patch anything, but can just leverage existing tools. 

-- 
Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu
WPI Network Engineer

Relevant Pages

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