Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:14:15 +0200 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Gergely CZUCZY <phoemix@harmless.hu> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: volume management Message-ID: <86k5wmu420.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20070408140215.GA54201@harmless.hu> (Gergely CZUCZY's message of "Sun, 8 Apr 2007 16:02:15 %2B0200") References: <20070408140215.GA54201@harmless.hu>
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Gergely CZUCZY <phoemix@harmless.hu> writes: > I'm looking for a disk organization, volume-management feature in > freebsd, something like LVM-like in a kind of way. Currently on our > linux boxes we are using LVM to organize the disks under our > content-drives. This means, we allocate a we-think-it-will-be-enough > space for a service from a storage pool for each service on the > actual box, and if later on the givenm space turns out not to be > enough, we increase that amount and grow the FS on it. ZFS in -CURRENT does that and more. I also have unfinished code for a GEOM-based LVM, but none of FreeBSD's file systems support on-the-fly resizing, so ZFS is really your best option. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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