Re: DynamicDisks

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Author: Kurt Granroth
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: DynamicDisks
On May 5, 2004, at 2:50 PM, Alan Dayley wrote:
> Michael Havens wrote:
>
>> He was surprised to see that article. He said, "Ohhhhh. So Linux
>> does support it now.
>> :-)Mike(-:
>
> Now? When did he last check?
>
> The mail list archives for the original LVM project go back to
> February of 1999. (See https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/)
>
> It was one of the "big new features" in the 2.4 kernel which was
> released 04-Jan-2001.
>
> "So Linux does support it now." Um... Yes, for several years.


Well, to be fair to this anonymous teacher, it looks like Dynamic
Drives first appeared in Windows 2000... a full year (or so) before LVM
went stable. So if the last time he looked was when Win2000 was
released, then he's off the hook (sort of).

And yes, I know that LVM was around before 2000. However, if even the
geeks had to search around to find a custom patch for their kernel, you
*know* that a Win-head wouldn't have even heard of it. The true
release for all normal people was 2.4.0.

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