From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 6 15:55:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30511528F for ; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 15:55:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA21291; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 10:24:50 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA11543; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 10:24:22 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990307102422.M490@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 10:24:22 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: John Fieber Cc: tim@scratch.demon.co.uk, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: vinum References: <19990306123104.J490@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from John Fieber on Sat, Mar 06, 1999 at 11:27:23AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 6 March 1999 at 11:27:23 -0500, John Fieber wrote: > On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>> vinum - is this volume management such like vold in solaris ? >> >> I believe it has a similar function. There are other volds which >> apparently do different things. > > Unless I missed something, vold on solaris is completely different: > > vold - Volume Management daemon to manage CD-ROM and floppy > devices > > It handles automounting of removable media, at least on Solaris > 2.6. Sun does have a vinum-like product, but vold isn't it. Oops. Yes, I've checked the man page now, and it carries on to say: DESCRIPTION The Volume Management daemon, vold, creates and maintains a file system image rooted at root-dir that contains sym- bolic names for floppies and CD-ROMs. The default root- dir is set to /vol if no directory is specified by the -d option. This is nothing like what vinum does. Vinum creates virtual disks. Sorry for the confusion. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message