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Date:      Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:03:22 +0000 (GMT)
From:      james <jamesp@hisser.org>
To:        Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: LVM / Vinum
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303271059300.19996-100000@greebo.hisser.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030326003230.GA2959@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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Hi Greg

Not too familiar with Vinum as yet, but I'll let you know when I have a 
better idea of it's features.

One question I have now though - I've successfully created a concatenated 
volume with two plexes. This volume was formatted, and now I've extended 
it within vinum.

Is there a workaround that will let me extend the filesystem using
growfs(8) on 5.0-STABLE? Is it fixed in CURRENT?

Cheers,

James

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

> On Tuesday, 25 March 2003 at  8:40:26 +0000, james wrote:
> > Hi Greg
> >
> > Thanks for the reply, appreciate it!
> >
> > On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> >
> >>> I'm very used to using LVM on Linux, AIX, HP/UX etc, and I want to be able
> >>> to similar stuff on fbsd. I've had a play with Vinum, and I'm just
> >>> wondering if there are any other alternatives?
> >>
> >> There's also RAIDFrame.
> >
> > I'll look into that, but will stick to Vinum for now. I actually work for
> > Veritas so it's a shame VM isn't on freebsd :)
> 
> What important VxVM functionality is missing in Vinum?
> 
> >>> Also, is it possible to extend / shrink volumes once they have been
> >>> created?
> >>
> >> Yes.  Add or remove subdisks to/from a plex.
> >
> > Is this also true for striped volumes? It seems this is not possible
> > from the documentation I've found on the web, but I know that
> > documentation can be out of date.
> 
> No, this is still not possible.
> 
> Greg
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