On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 08:25 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > Somewhat off-topic, but my one big regret with how the dm vs. evms > competition settled out was that evms had the ability to perform block > device snapshots using a non-LVM volume as the base --- and that EVMS > allowed a single drive to be partially managed by the LVM layer, and > partially managed by evms. If all you want is a snapshot, md can do this today ... you just create a RAID-1 resync it and then break it ... of course, you have to have the filesystem mounted above an md device initially ... James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html