From: Grant Grundler <grundler@cup.hp.com>
To: Nick Cabatoff <ncc@cs.mcgill.ca>
Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] HFS linux implementation
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 23:30:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200003100731.XAA09162@milano.cup.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Mar 2000 01:09:49 PST." <20000310010949.A14656@cs.mcgill.ca>
getting a bit off track here...
Nick Cabatoff wrote:
> <sigh> I'm kind of
> mystified why HP would've waited for LVM to allow multiple filesystems
> on a single disk; what's so bad about partition tables?
You have to know about HP's "hard" partition scheme.
It was a pain to support. Every new disk required a new entry
in the kernel's partition table. yes, I said Kernel. It's not
stored on the disk. And that was delivered as a patch. 'nuf said.
That's why LVM is better than "partion tables".
Since LVM was "on the roadmap" anyway, HP decided to depend LVM
to provide "soft" portitioning (ie partition tables stored on the
media) instead of something like the PC's use.
grant
Grant Grundler
Unix Development Lab
+1.408.447.7253
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-03-10 8:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-10 0:35 [parisc-linux] HFS linux implementation Nick Cabatoff
2000-03-10 1:37 ` Grant Grundler
2000-03-10 6:09 ` Nick Cabatoff
2000-03-10 7:30 ` Grant Grundler [this message]
2000-03-10 22:28 ` Dominik Kubla
2000-03-10 8:33 ` Martin K. Petersen
2000-03-10 15:59 ` Nick Cabatoff
2000-03-10 16:04 ` willy
2000-03-10 16:35 ` Nick Cabatoff
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