From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 24 15:15:14 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B87F37B404 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:15:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFFF343FA3 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:15:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id AEFBD51A68; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:45:05 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:45:05 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: james Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LVM / Vinum Message-ID: <20030324231505.GW56271@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="7kW37LRKoI6fR2de" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-38.8 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --7kW37LRKoI6fR2de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 24 March 2003 at 11:39:12 +0000, james wrote: > Hi > > I'm new to FreeBSD but not new to UNIX or storage. First of all I must say > that FreeBSD looks rather polished, more like a commercial offering than > a volunteer effort! :) > > I'm very used to using LVM on Linux, AIX, HP/UX etc, and I want to be able > to similar stuff on fbsd. I've had a play with Vinum, and I'm just > wondering if there are any other alternatives? There's also RAIDFrame. > I like the LVM way of having a pool of physical volumes, and having > the LVM subsystem take care of physical placement of logical > volumes. In Vimun, it seems to me that you have to explicitly state > what disks you would like to use for a volume. Yes, correct. I don't think of this as a problem. > Also, is it possible to extend / shrink volumes once they have been > created? Yes. Add or remove subdisks to/from a plex. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --7kW37LRKoI6fR2de Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQE+f5F5IubykFB6QiMRAmptAKCeTyH7qDmTSMEDYnkYAZJq4C+4+ACXZacX eIeGkKTVz1tLQVF/8LhbXw== =wbH1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7kW37LRKoI6fR2de-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message