Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 19:40:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, brian@Awfulhak.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Announcing vinum: a volume manager for FreeBSD Message-ID: <19980517194047.A427@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199805170917.CAA09822@baloon.mimi.com>; from Satoshi Asami on Sun, May 17, 1998 at 02:17:57AM -0700 References: <199805162119.WAA25472@awfulhak.org> <199805170917.CAA09822@baloon.mimi.com>
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On Sun, 17 May 1998 at 2:17:57 -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> > * > * [.....] > * > o By dynamically increasing the size of a volume, it is pos- > * > sible to solve space problems without repartitioning. > * > * Excellent ! > > Um, that is true, but I assume he meant "if/when FFS supports resizing > of existing filesystems" or "if you are using the raw disk partition > and not a filesystem". Its functionality is rougly equal to ccd at > this point (according to the README). It's not a filesystem. Correct. Think of a vinum volume as a resizable partition. However, der Mouse has released code which resizes a ufs partition. Terry sent information recently, and if I ever get the time, I'll look at it. > By the way, I'll be very interested in testing the RAID5 functionality > when I get some time (and some spare disks). Go for it. You know the URL, right? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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