Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 10:24:22 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: tim@scratch.demon.co.uk, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: vinum Message-ID: <19990307102422.M490@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903061124060.24788-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>; from John Fieber on Sat, Mar 06, 1999 at 11:27:23AM -0500 References: <19990306123104.J490@lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903061124060.24788-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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On Saturday, 6 March 1999 at 11:27:23 -0500, John Fieber wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>>> vinum - is this volume management such like vold in solaris ?
>>
>> I believe it has a similar function. There are other volds which
>> apparently do different things.
>
> Unless I missed something, vold on solaris is completely different:
>
> vold - Volume Management daemon to manage CD-ROM and floppy
> devices
>
> It handles automounting of removable media, at least on Solaris
> 2.6. Sun does have a vinum-like product, but vold isn't it.
Oops. Yes, I've checked the man page now, and it carries on to say:
DESCRIPTION
The Volume Management daemon, vold, creates and maintains
a file system image rooted at root-dir that contains sym-
bolic names for floppies and CD-ROMs. The default root-
dir is set to /vol if no directory is specified by the -d
option.
This is nothing like what vinum does. Vinum creates virtual disks.
Sorry for the confusion.
Greg
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