From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 8 5: 0: 4 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 05:00:01 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (CDR22-166.accesscable.net [24.138.22.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BD5337B400 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 05:00:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eB8CwWx06235; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 08:58:32 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 08:58:32 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Alexander Langer Cc: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" , growfs@tomsoft.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: growfs(8) for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20001208113836.B32113@cichlids.cichlids.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Alexander Langer wrote: > Thus spake The Hermit Hacker (scrappy@hub.org): > > > > > Stripe'd file systems (or concat ones) ... what growfs allows is someone > > to add an n+1 drive to their RAID/Stripe and increase the size of the file > > No, vinum can do this alone. > > But you couldn't grow the _fs_ after that, so there was no use for > this vinum feature. Okay, that is what I said ... "add an n+1 drive to ... and increase the size of the file system" ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message