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To: Gergely CZUCZY <phoemix@harmless.hu>
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Subject: Re: volume management
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Gergely CZUCZY <phoemix@harmless.hu> writes:
> I'm looking for a disk organization, volume-management feature in
> freebsd, something like LVM-like in a kind of way.  Currently on our
> linux boxes we are using LVM to organize the disks under our
> content-drives. This means, we allocate a we-think-it-will-be-enough
> space for a service from a storage pool for each service on the
> actual box, and if later on the givenm space turns out not to be
> enough, we increase that amount and grow the FS on it.

ZFS in -CURRENT does that and more.  I also have unfinished code for a
GEOM-based LVM, but none of FreeBSD's file systems support on-the-fly
resizing, so ZFS is really your best option.

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