Linked by Sean Oliviero on Wed 28th Jul 2004 05:54 UTC
The promise of Desktop Linux (DL) has been long coming. It's made significant progress since the mid-90s when GNOME and KDE came out, giving Linux users a somewhat modern desktop to work upon. However, it's been 7 years and DL hasn't progressed much at all since then. Today, DL is still nothing more than a UNIX-clone with a task bar, a start menu, and a desktop with some icons on it. But why has DL evolved at such a glacial pace?
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Pooled storage? This must be a joke. I can pop in a new hard drive and mount it wherever I want on my Linux system. What the hell is the author talking about?
He is talking about logical volume management LVM. This is already available in Linux. But most distros doesn't turn it on by default though. The idea is that you have an extra layer of abstraction between your mount points and your physical media, making it possible to extend and schrink the available storage space available at each mount point.
This is very handy e.g. if your mail system requires your inboxes to reside on /var/spool/mail and you get out of space. You just add some more disk and to the mount point holding /var/spool/mail. No need to copy files to a new and larger disk, just add some space.