[clug] partition tables in memory

[Nigel Cunningham]

Howdy.

On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 11:50, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:15:35AM +1000, Kim Holburn wrote:
> > 
> > >This is why God invented LVM...
> > 
> > Don't get me started ;-)  Slowness in volumes mounted from an nfs 
> > server using LVM may be a contributing cause of the problems with this 
> > system that makes it require more memory.  In any case, God didn't 
> > invent LVM, it's an attempt to fix underlying problems with hardware 
> > and maybe a good idea, I always thought it was a good idea, it's just 
> > the implementation is lacking something.  Adding yet more layers of 
> > indirection doesn't always help, especially in a system with hundreds 
> > of users.  Also there is no reason to use LVM on system partitions in a 
> > system disk, it would just invite problems.  I'll shut up now.
> > 
> 
> :-)
> 
> You mustn't have made Ted Ts'o's tutorial at linux.conf.au.
> 
> He said any problem can be solved in Computer Science with an extra layer of
> indirection :-)

I did a cool presentation that used fuse to help with reconstructing a
raid array. That was a case where Ted was right :>

Nigel
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