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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:21:59 +1000
From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
To: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
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Subject: Re: OT: how to increase RAID space
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On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:07:32 +0700 (ICT)
Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> wrote:

> > that's what a volume manager (such as LVM2 in linux, Veritas Vol Mgr , and
> > vinum (I think) in FBSD 4 ) do  - they abstract the hardware storage layer.
> 
> That is hardware RAID.

yes, i realise you mentioned it . You'd imagine some raid card manufacturers
would have something as flexible as LVM built into their cards by now... maybe
someone does already.. ?

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