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From: Mark Allen <mallen@tuxtops.com>
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Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Re: IBM to release LVM Technology to the Linux Community
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benr@us.ibm.com wrote:
> Hello everyone.  Sorry for the delay in responding.  Here is something I
> posted to Slashdot.  I think it answers some questions and gives a little
> context for what IBM is doing.  I'll try to begin answering the specific
> questions that have been submitted this afternoon.

I'm really excited that IBM is considering releasing their LVM
technology -- JFS and the LVM were really the best features of AIX by
far. 

Could you address the prospect of IBM's LVM incorporating "shared"
volume groups like the commercial high-availablity software (IBM's
HA/CMP or HP's Service Guard or Sun's HA offering).  That kind of
software would allow a disk group to transfer to another system if the
main host failed.

Would something like that be a "feature plug-in" in the framework which
was proposed in the white paper?

Regards,

Mark