Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 17 May 1998 19:40:47 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, brian@Awfulhak.org
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Announcing vinum: a volume manager for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <19980517194047.A427@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199805170917.CAA09822@baloon.mimi.com>; from Satoshi Asami on Sun, May 17, 1998 at 02:17:57AM -0700
References:  <199805162119.WAA25472@awfulhak.org> <199805170917.CAA09822@baloon.mimi.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, 17 May 1998 at  2:17:57 -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote:
>  * From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
>  *
>  * [.....]
>  * >    o By dynamically increasing the size of a volume, it is pos-
>  * >      sible to solve space problems without repartitioning.
>  *
>  * Excellent !
>
> Um, that is true, but I assume he meant "if/when FFS supports resizing
> of existing filesystems" or "if you are using the raw disk partition
> and not a filesystem".  Its functionality is rougly equal to ccd at
> this point (according to the README).  It's not a filesystem.

Correct.  Think of a vinum volume as a resizable partition.  However,
der Mouse has released code which resizes a ufs partition.  Terry sent
information recently, and if I ever get the time, I'll look at it.

> By the way, I'll be very interested in testing the RAID5 functionality
> when I get some time (and some spare disks).

Go for it.  You know the URL, right?

Greg 
--
See complete headers for address and phone numbers
finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19980517194047.A427>