Re: [linux-lvm] LVM onFly features

[Mag Gam <magawake@gmail.com>]

thanks everyone for their kind replies.

So, will LVM and FS (ext2/3 in particular )ever be considered as 1?
This would be nice for ease of devt.




On 12/10/05, Marc-Jano Knopp <pub_ml_lvm@marc-jano.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 at 15:51 (-0700), Michael Loftis wrote:
> > --On December 10, 2005 3:44:00 PM -0700 Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>
> > wrote:
> > >--On December 10, 2005 11:31:40 PM +0100 Marc-Jano Knopp <pub_ml_lvm@marc-jano.de> wrote:
> [...]
> > >Any tail can be packed if it doesn't match the block size.  In our case
> > >the corruption evidenced itself as files with the first part being ok,
> > >and the last part being all NULLs (0x0) up to the 'normal' file size.
> >
> > I really should say *mostly* because yes, files that were entirely shorter
> > than the blocksize were essentially gone (full of NULLs).
>
> I knew it. :-)
>
>
> > Our mail server makes the best use of reiserfs because of the huge number
> > of files and the amount of files that end up packed.
>
> Same effect with news spool here (until ReiserFS lost files and I
> returned remorsefully to ext3 :-).
>
>
> Best regards
>
>   Marc-Jano
>
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