From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 24 3:39:25 2003 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 D45AC37B401 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 03:39:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from greebo.hisser.org (greebo.hisser.org [62.49.72.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6407E43F93 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 03:39:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamesp@hisser.org) Received: (qmail 4939 invoked by uid 500); 24 Mar 2003 11:39:12 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Mar 2003 11:39:12 -0000 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:39:12 +0000 (GMT) From: james To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: LVM / Vinum Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=USER_AGENT_PINE autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I'm new to FreeBSD but not new to UNIX or storage. First of all I must say that FreeBSD looks rather polished, more like a commercial offering than a volunteer effort! :) 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? I like the LVM way of having a pool of physical volumes, and having the LVM subsystem take care of physical placement of logical volumes. In Vimun, it seems to me that you have to explicitly state what disks you would like to use for a volume. Also, is it possible to extend / shrink volumes once they have been created? Cheers, James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message