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How LinuxDisk will put a bomb under storage fatcats

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/16469.html

By: Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco

Posted: 30/01/2001 at 13:07 GMT

Linux advocates who think corporates have stolen their revolution ought to have reason to cheer up this week. For a humble free software device driver still has the power to change the world, we'll discover at LinuxWorld in New York this week.

Tomorrow file system provocateur Peter Braam will be on hand to talk about a number of projects, and there's a good chance you haven't heard of what's potentially the most revolutionary: LinuxDisk.

What LinuxDisk provides is a bridge between cheap disks and the rest of the network, and in particular logical volume manager support. For the first time vanilla Linux systems will become storage controllers: at the heart of LinuxDisk is a driver that looks to the world like SCSI in target mode. So while the rest of world sees a SCSI or Fibre Channel array, the boxen are simply running cheap IDE disks. The LVM provides virtualised file system.

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