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Hi,

Am Montag, 15. November 2004 18:25 schrieb Paul Mather:
> [...]
> I don't know if growfs is 100% robust enough yet to provide the other
> important ingredient to a true LVM storage management system a la the
> logical volume manager on AIX or AdvFS on Tru64, say.

Yes, it is. I use (g)vinum primarily as a LVM with concat plexes on 
ProLiant Servers with SmartRAID-Controllers, so mirroring and/or RAID5 
is done in hardware.

The extension of filesystems on concat plexes works (simply) as 
advertised... :-) At least *I* had no problems so far.
-- 
Ciao/BSD - Matthias

Matthias Schuendehuette <msch [at] snafu.de>, Berlin (Germany)
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