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>12.1. When to create a volume</H1
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>EVMS treats volumes and storage objects separately.
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A storage object does not automatically
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become a volume; it must be made into a volume.</P
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>Volumes are created from storage objects.
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Volumes are either EVMS native volumes or compatibility volumes. Compatibility volumes
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LVM, MD, OS/2 or AIX. Compatibility volumes might have restrictions on what EVMS can do with
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EVMS equipped system. Volumes are mountable and can contain file systems.</P
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the volume name. After this volume information is
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applied, the volume is no longer fully backward compatible
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with existing volume types.</P
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adding EVMS metadata to an existing object, you can tell EVMS to make an object directly available as a volume. This type of
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volume is known as a compatibility volume. Using this method, the final product is fully
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