From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 1 18:48:25 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 910711065686 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 18:48:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rick@kiwi-computer.com) Received: from kiwi-computer.com (keira.kiwi-computer.com [63.224.10.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A2D58FC2E for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 18:48:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rick@kiwi-computer.com) Received: (qmail 59347 invoked by uid 2001); 1 Apr 2008 18:21:43 -0000 Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 12:21:43 -0600 From: "Rick C. Petty" To: Patrick Dung Message-ID: <20080401182143.GA59286@keira.kiwi-computer.com> References: <702090.76426.qm@web54304.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <702090.76426.qm@web54304.mail.re2.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Feature request X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:48:25 -0000 On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 10:24:44AM -0700, Patrick Dung wrote: > > I think Gvinum more like software raid then LVM (allocate/resize > Logical Volume on the fly). vinum *is* a (logical) volume manager. You don't have to use RAID at all, but it's easy enough to do. Resize is currently broken, but lulf@ I think was working on that. There are many things I don't like about LVM at all, particularly in the naming and how impossible it is to setup a root mirror at install (or even mirror whole disks). -- Rick C. Petty