> Not necessarily.  For doing logical volumes, it's nice to have a handle on
> the physical location.  That's the way VMS (sorry to mention it 3 times in
> one day) handles things, but you can create a logical name and say that
> your directory, [foo.dir] is found on c:, d:, g:, and h:.  Called bound
> volumes, and I think it's the wheel that the LVM project(s) are
> reinventing.

Nah, HP already re-invented that wheel. Linux is just stealing the
hubcaps...