just an other Linux rant (was: Re: [geeks] fw)

[Jochen Kunz]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 09:06:08AM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> I would have though that / fs type would be an optional boot parameter
> to be passed to the kernel by lilo.  
Maybe. I did not see anything like that. The only parameter in that
area that I know are root=/dev/somedisk and init=/bin/sh_or_the_like. 
A *BSD reads the FS type from its disklabel / asks if it can't 
mount a FFS insted of panic without a chance of user intervention. 

> I keep meaning to try LVM.  It sounds nice.  
LVM is nice. We use it already on a 450 GB hardware RAID5. 
But it is not nice when it fails. Once there went somthing wrong
while booting. Result was a completely garbled LVM => volume group
assignment. 

> I haven't heard anything
> to indicate that NetBSD has anything similar.
No. And I am afraid that it will not appear in the near future.
(Remember that the upcoming 1.6 release is the first with SMP...)
FreeBSD has vinum. 
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tsch,
         Jochen

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