Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 22:04:23 +0200 From: Lukas Ertl <le@freebsd.org> To: rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com Cc: Jonathan Dobbie <jonathan_dobbie@mcad.edu>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nesting gvinum? Message-ID: <46422947.3090301@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070509160018.GB22504@keira.kiwi-computer.com> References: <4641DE02.3000706@mcad.edu> <20070509160018.GB22504@keira.kiwi-computer.com>
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Rick C. Petty wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:43:14AM -0500, Jonathan Dobbie wrote: >> I was hoping to have something like md+LVM where I could change the size >> of RAID 5 volumes. Could I have a large gvinum raid-5 volume and then >> make 3 gvinum volumes on top that could be resized? > > Except for the nesting, this is precisely what gvinum does. Why do you > need nesting? Resizing volumes is something gvinum is supposed to be able > to do. RAID5 plexes (as striped plexes) can't be resized without destroying all the data, although it would be a nice feature, I agree. :-) cheers, le -- Lukas Ertl http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/ le@FreeBSD.org http://people.freebsd.org/~le/
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