From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 15 18:41:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 240EC16A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:41:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gromit.dlib.vt.edu (gromit.dlib.vt.edu [128.173.49.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C152B43D39 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:41:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu) Received: from zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org (pool-151-199-90-129.roa.east.verizon.net [151.199.90.129]) by gromit.dlib.vt.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iAFIfDPW041908 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:41:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu) Received: from zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org (localhost.Chelsea-Ct.Org [127.0.0.1]) by zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iAFIf7SI081520 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:41:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu) Received: (from paul@localhost) by zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iAFIf6cG081519; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:41:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org: paul set sender to paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu using -f From: Paul Mather To: msch@snafu.de 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> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:41:05 -0500 Message-Id: <1100544065.31778.46.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port cc: Zaphod Beeblebrox cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gvinum again? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:41:16 -0000 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. -- e-mail: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." --- Frank Vincent Zappa