Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:40:26 +0000 (GMT) From: james <jamesp@hisser.org> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LVM / Vinum Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303250837330.17929-100000@greebo.hisser.org> In-Reply-To: <20030324231505.GW56271@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Hi Greg Thanks for the reply, appreciate it! On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > 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'll look into that, but will stick to Vinum for now. I actually work for Veritas so it's a shame VM isn't on freebsd :) > > 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. True, just means I'll have to actually plan things which can only be a good thing. > > Also, is it possible to extend / shrink volumes once they have been > > created? > > Yes. Add or remove subdisks to/from a plex. Is this also true for striped volumes? It seems this is not possible from the documentation I've found on the web, but I know that documentation can be out of date. Cheers James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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