Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:29:48 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: Gergely CZUCZY <phoemix@harmless.hu>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: volume management Message-ID: <461A4DDC.2090307@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <86k5wmu420.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <20070408140215.GA54201@harmless.hu> <86k5wmu420.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On 04/08/07 13:14, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Gergely CZUCZY <phoemix@harmless.hu> writes: >> I'm looking for a disk organization, volume-management feature in >> freebsd, something like LVM-like in a kind of way. Currently on our >> linux boxes we are using LVM to organize the disks under our >> content-drives. This means, we allocate a we-think-it-will-be-enough >> space for a service from a storage pool for each service on the >> actual box, and if later on the givenm space turns out not to be >> enough, we increase that amount and grow the FS on it. > > ZFS in -CURRENT does that and more. I also have unfinished code for a > GEOM-based LVM, but none of FreeBSD's file systems support on-the-fly > resizing, so ZFS is really your best option. Is that code available in P4 somewhere (or elsewhere)? Sounds interesting. Eric
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