Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:11:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/69644: (PATCH) "Proper synopsis" for handbook's Vinum chapter? Message-ID: <200407270211.i6R2B75V097769@ezekiel.daleco.biz> Resent-Message-ID: <200407270220.i6R2KIIT046395@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 69644
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: (PATCH) "Proper synopsis" for handbook's Vinum chapter?
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: update
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Jul 27 02:20:18 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Kevin Kinsey
>Release: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 i386
>Organization:
DaleCo, S.P.
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD ezekiel.daleco.biz 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 #3: Thu Apr 8 17:36:47 CDT 2004 root@ezekiel.daleco.biz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
Saw this on the "to-do". Don't know that it's great, but there is at
least more to this than the old version. Some text from vinumvm.org...
>How-To-Repeat:
NA
>Fix:
--- chapter.sgml Wed Nov 5 04:36:56 2003
+++ chapter.sgml.edit Mon Jul 26 20:57:50 2004
@@ -15,20 +15,36 @@
<sect1 id="vinum-synopsis">
<title>Synopsis</title>
- <para>No matter what disks you have, there will always be limitations:</para>
+
+<para>No matter what disks you have, there are always potential problems:</para>
<itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>They can be too small.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>They can be too slow.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>They can be too unreliable.</para>
- </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>They can be too small.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>They can be too slow.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>They can be too unreliable.</para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
+
+<para>One way some users safeguard themselves against such issues is
+through the use of multiple, and sometimes redundant, disks.</para>
+
+<para>In addition to supporting various cards and controllers for hardware
+RAID systems, the base FreeBSD system includes the Vinum Volume Manager,
+a block device driver that implements virtual disk drives.</para>
+
+<para>Vinum provides more flexibility, performance, and reliability than
+traditional disk storage, and implements RAID-0, RAID-1, and RAID-5
+models both individually and in combination.</para>
+
+<para>This chapter provides an overview of potential problems with traditional
+disk storage, and an introduction to the Vinum Volume Manager.</para>
+
</sect1>
<sect1 id="vinum-intro">
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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