On Friday 24 February 2006 22:13, John Jolet wrote: > okay, i'll rephrase.... being an old aix hand... with the (possible) > exeption of reiser.... I, personally, would not trust any filesystem > to resize without being unmounted. but then, compared to the aix > lvm, which can be resized with oracle accessing at full speed, linux > lvms are just barely getting to what I'd call "production ready". > interesting to see that we're moving in an online-resizable direction > on linux. :) What an unenlighten troll. I have plenty of experience with AIX's volume manager. LVM2 can stand up to it any day. As a matter of fact Linux's LVM is about to completely surpass what is available in AIX. LVM2 can do cluster locking and management. You can use LVM2 with Multipathing tools just as you can under any commercial Unix. LVM2 is more than ready for prime time as can be seen by looking at RHEL and SLES distributions.
Linux is not a toy and neither is LVM2. It can be used as a toy or a learning device, but it is not relegated to the closet of geeks. And don't get me started on AIX if you don't happen to have the OnlineJFS sets installed. Also the draconian having to resize the filesystem by calculating the number of 512 byte blocks in the filesystem. Do your homework please. Just because you've dealt exclusively or extensively with one flavor of *nix doesn't mean that others aren't up to the task. And just because it's IBM's Unix doesn't make it more or less ready for the enterprise, it just makes it proprietary. You'd do well to judge based on features, capabilities and the completeness of the tools. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
