From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 22 21:20: 4 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B3A37B401 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 21:20:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B407743F3F for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 21:20:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from friar_josh@webwarrior.net) Received: by ns1.webwarrior.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 105F32537F; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 23:20:01 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 23:20:00 -0600 From: Josh Paetzel To: David Feig Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum, concantination and filesystems Message-ID: <20030223052000.GB91839@ns1.webwarrior.net> References: <03022301284602.00641@hoho.freerangeho.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <03022301284602.00641@hoho.freerangeho.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 01:28:46AM -0300, David Feig wrote: > Can I do this: > > I want to create a new filesystem that I can grow and/or mirror later > by adding more drives without losing my existing data. > > I have been reading about Vinum but haven't found anything about > growing filesystems without losing data. I am talking about some like > Partition Magic. You might take a look at growfs. > > I have done a bit of searching for 'growable' filesystems under FreeBSD > but I haven't been able to find much of anything about anything besides > ufs. > There isn't a growable filesystem so to speak, although in certain conditions growfs can grow a ufs file system. > Also, I can't seem to get dns resolution for the Vinum website. Have > these guys not been paying their bills? (www.vinumvm.org) > Shh. Don't say vinum too loudly...it will wake Greg up. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message