Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:41:05 -0500 From: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> To: msch@snafu.de Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gvinum again? Message-ID: <1100544065.31778.46.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> In-Reply-To: <200411151933.37431.msch@snafu.de> References: <5f67a8c4041114213657cdb434@mail.gmail.com> <5f67a8c404111423317b721cfe@mail.gmail.com> <1100539526.31778.18.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> <200411151933.37431.msch@snafu.de>
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On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 19:33 +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote:
> 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.
That's encouraging to hear! Can you shrink volumes and filesystems like
you can on, say, AdvFS under Tru64? That would be really nice.
Cheers,
Paul.
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