[geeks] disksuite rants.

[Ryn]

Of the lovely improvements, is there integration into SMC. Anyone else see SMC
as a bloated peace of trash?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Howard" <scott at doc.net.au>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] disksuite rants.


> On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:31:40AM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > Anybody know if Sun is ever going to improve disksuite so that you dont
> > have to go manually lay out partition tables/slices on disks before
> > using them under disksuite?
>
> They already (sorta) did...  It's called "Soft Partitioning" and is included
> in one of the later patches for SDS 4.2.1.
>
> It's not in the same league as VxVM, but it's gradually getting there.
> Solaris 9, where SDS is renamed to Solaris Volume Manager, includes a number
> of improvements.
>
>   Scott.
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