Re: Volume Management

2007-05-18 Thread Sébastien Colmant
: OpenBSD doesn't have any volume management tools ala lvm and friends. If you don't have other requirements that tie you to OpenBSD specifically, you might want to look at some of the GEOM-based providers in FreeBSD. If you give a more detailed description of what you want to do you'll likely get

Re: Volume Management

2007-05-18 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
are shipping ZFS in addition to the traditional Solaris volume management tools. As a SAN storage engine, that's one of your better places to start. Use the right tool for the right job. OpenBSD isn't what you want for the SAN. But it is what you want to use to secure access to that SAN. --lyndon

Re: Volume Management

2007-05-18 Thread Sébastien Colmant
looks indeed quite interesting and i will take a close look at it plus the Solaris volume management tools are quite adequate for the job i have in mind, namely replacing a crappy dell powervault running some crappy win2000 storage (dont ask, i wasnt in the company when this was bought and has been

Re: Volume Management

2007-05-18 Thread Ted Unangst
On 5/18/07, Sibastien Colmant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: btw, is there any plan to include volume management in a future release? what can volume management do that you cannot do with ccdconfig and disklabel?

Re: Volume Management

2007-05-18 Thread Sébastien Colmant
that has a tendency to get overabused by users. Ted Unangst a icrit : On 5/18/07, Sibastien Colmant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: btw, is there any plan to include volume management in a future release? what can volume management do that you cannot do with ccdconfig and disklabel

Re: Volume Management

2007-05-18 Thread Ted Unangst
On 5/18/07, Sibastien Colmant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 after reading some more on ccdconfig, just on the top of my head it doesnt seems to allow moving data block from on physical or logical volume to another for example. when i m saying volume

Re: Volume Management

2007-05-18 Thread Ted Unangst
On 5/18/07, Sibastien Colmant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ps: this is in no way an attack after one of OpenBSD developer and most certainly someone better qualified than i am to know and understand the finer points of a system like lvm (the concept not the package), i merely miss some of the ease

Re: Volume Management

2007-05-18 Thread Sébastien Colmant
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 after reading some more on ccdconfig, just on the top of my head it doesnt seems to allow moving data block from on physical or logical volume to another for example. when i m saying volume management i m encompassing more than concatenating disks

Re: Volume Management

2007-05-18 Thread Sébastien Colmant
from on physical or logical volume to another for example. when i m saying volume management i m encompassing more than concatenating disks or partitions, i need to be able to move data around, resize dynamically add and / or remove disks and or partitions without the user having to endure

Volume Management

2007-05-17 Thread Sébastien Colmant
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I m quite new to OpenBSD but i m familiar with *nix systems. I m currently looking at using OpenBSD to build a nas appliance, however after looking into the packages list i havent found a Volume Manager, anyone able to point me in the right

Re: Volume Management

2007-05-17 Thread Tobias Weingartner
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sibastien Colmant wrote: I m quite new to OpenBSD but i m familiar with *nix systems. I m currently looking at using OpenBSD to build a nas appliance, however after looking into the packages list i havent found a Volume Manager, anyone able to point me in

Re: Volume Management

2007-05-17 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 04:15:32PM +0200, S?bastien Colmant wrote: I m quite new to OpenBSD but i m familiar with *nix systems. I m currently looking at using OpenBSD to build a nas appliance, however after looking into the packages list i havent found a Volume Manager, anyone able to point me

Re: Volume Management

2007-05-17 Thread Sébastien Colmant
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I m familiar with those, my question was regarding a volume manager not simple disk operation. Something similar to lvm or evms maybe Tobias Weingartner a icrit : In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sibastien Colmant wrote: I m quite new to OpenBSD but

Re: Volume Management

2007-05-17 Thread Ted Unangst
On 5/17/07, Sibastien Colmant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I m familiar with those, my question was regarding a volume manager not simple disk operation. Something similar to lvm or evms maybe use ccdconfig.