[illumos-Discuss] md aka svm aka lvm

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 17:44 +0100, Peter Tribble wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at damore.org> wrote:
> >> On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> >>
> >> > Do you use or need md/svm/lvm on illumos or OpenSolaris or similar?
> ...
> >
> > Ok, its good to understand.  So used with cluster and SAM-FS is really
> > the crucial reason here.  I *hope* people aren't using it with ufs.
> > Really.
> 
> I still find it necessary on occasion to create new UFS filesystems, because
> there are occasional cases where ZFS simply doesn't work correctly. (Usable
> default ACLs is one; deterministic ordering of results from opendir()
> is another.)
> 
> I really don't want to end up in a situation where vxvm+vxfs ends up being
> used because it's the only alternative to ZFS.


I'm convinced not to nuke UFS (which was never on the plan anyway) or
SVM.

At some point my fear is that if none of the active developers here are
using it, it will bit rot ... but that can wait a while.

	-- Garrett