From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 17 03:12:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA01221 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 03:12:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA01189; Sun, 17 May 1998 03:11:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id TAA00641; Sun, 17 May 1998 19:40:47 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980517194047.A427@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 19:40:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Satoshi Asami , brian@Awfulhak.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Announcing vinum: a volume manager for FreeBSD References: <199805162119.WAA25472@awfulhak.org> <199805170917.CAA09822@baloon.mimi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199805170917.CAA09822@baloon.mimi.com>; from Satoshi Asami on Sun, May 17, 1998 at 02:17:57AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 17 May 1998 at 2:17:57 -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * From: Brian Somers > * > * [.....] > * > 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