From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 25 0:40:41 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 AB31F37B401 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 00:40:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from greebo.hisser.org (greebo.hisser.org [62.49.72.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E014443FA3 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 00:40:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamesp@hisser.org) Received: (qmail 18031 invoked by uid 500); 25 Mar 2003 08:40:26 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Mar 2003 08:40:26 -0000 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:40:26 +0000 (GMT) From: james To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LVM / Vinum In-Reply-To: <20030324231505.GW56271@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-15.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, QUOTE_TWICE_1,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_PINE 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 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 It seems this is not possible from the documentation I've found on the web, but I know that documentation can be out of date.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