From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 27 03:03:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51F2C37B404 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 03:03:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from greebo.hisser.org (greebo.hisser.org [62.49.72.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FE5643F85 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 03:03:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamesp@hisser.org) Received: (qmail 20055 invoked by uid 500); 27 Mar 2003 11:03:22 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Mar 2003 11:03:22 -0000 Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:03:22 +0000 (GMT) From: james To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey In-Reply-To: <20030326003230.GA2959@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-25.3 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_PINE autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LVM / Vinum X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:03:36 -0000 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 > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address and phone numbers >