On Monday, 24 March 2003 at 11:39:12 +0000, james wrote: > Hi > > I'm new to FreeBSD but not new to UNIX or storage. First of all I must say > that FreeBSD looks rather polished, more like a commercial offering than > a volunteer effort! :) > > 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 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. > Also, is it possible to extend / shrink volumes once they have been > created? Yes. Add or remove subdisks to/from a plex. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers
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