From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 8 18:26:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (d-177.linux2002.uq.net.au [203.15.37.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0497537B400 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 18:26:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) id g192QHe00533; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 12:26:17 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 12:26:17 +1000 From: Greg Lehey To: Jaye Mathisen Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there any reason not to use BSD partitions on VINUM'd drives? Message-ID: <20020209122617.D438@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <20020208092611.F37355@backmaster.cdsnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020208092611.F37355@backmaster.cdsnet.net>; from mrcpu@internetcds.com on Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 09:26:11AM -0800 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 On Friday, 8 February 2002 at 9:26:11 -0800, Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > For example, if I have a raid 0+1 40GB partition on 4 disks, > it would be just as easy to create a d and e partition and > use it, as opposed to creating double the numbers of plexes and > volumes... > > Is there some reason I can't do this? or is it just unusual. Well, it's not supported, and I can't see any earthly reason to want to do it. What happens if you want to change the size of the partition? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message