Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 20:19:16 +0200 From: Gergely CZUCZY <phoemix@harmless.hu> To: Dag-Erling =?utf-8?B?U23DuHJncmF2?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: volume management Message-ID: <20070408181916.GA59715@harmless.hu> In-Reply-To: <86k5wmu420.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <20070408140215.GA54201@harmless.hu> <86k5wmu420.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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--EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 08:14:15PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrote: > 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. >=20 > 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. yeap, i know about ZFS, as i assume, it will need around 1.5-2 years =66rom now, when 7.0-RELEASE will be ready. and with that i'm not sure ZFS will be a stable feature, for no it's experimental. and i'm looking for a solution for a production environment within a year. on-the-fly growfs is not required. stopping the service for a few minutes can be done, since we've got enough redundancy in our server farm. and UFS2 has growfs(8), that would be enough. > > DES cool signo :) Bye, Gergely Czuczy mailto: gergely.czuczy@harmless.hu --=20 Weenies test. Geniuses solve problems that arise. --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) owFlVTFvHEUUNolIMRGIiALRvQLJhOwsd5fY51xiQ3y+QxExAZ8NwlSzu293R96d 2czM3nldpaRACCEKpAgJUQBNJJAQNRUd/AFExS+gChINb3bvDBLdztzM9773fd+b ++SZi2sXrvz63Q8fXPvo00dPPb70XPRKWTunMl4KM5eK93u9Pt+4Oexv8A0+HOAw FcP+zV6SXt+Mpi8OXhpr5VA5fthUOAKHp+7VqhBS3YI4F8ai265dyrfY6tyetJW2 0kmtRiBVIRWe/3ZohLIpGj5RsU6kykbwoNYOE14ZqZyICmTsvoJZrQK4UxnobQUw 6PWGIBx9j/o3Rv2Nt/fhWo82A9gTGZ8YqpDBrNweX9/e3TKZEXNYGAIdsR14A02G RQPj46Px8ftwu8o1lvL0dWJeFmhtmNc7dFo6tP74DtxdL6HQ+sRjptqAgETaE9Am E0qeCd9VAHNd1CWSgEpkWFJjkKJwtUHqt0VJDWJkkwCsLtHlHqyQJwj33t3n7YdU hExFEtApLEQTAoxrYwiKyGoFujYtEPVWn0KkT9HCAkFQidp6OEICp1e8EFyOLVML tUrQnAPES+UTI+doQzjMpYUSyYagBSwKHQtHH7TinukJl44vZFHwCDkqXWd5C2Qr EeNSEouUHL8yuvRLpw0JAZXWRXsCRZyfH6JuiFyLIWJXi8K3E4Cg3mUKBRU3yzOQ EUdVLkuRnspSHw6Udr7XqAPpOLXspYoNCuu7p3yIUtdkhQfOjF60iNOZx5YuZDvb gx7dP6YdEp+Pjw4OJm8dQqJJ2e463Su1QbLiLuliNeRiTnKrVCppc0xIy2SpgE/W 5P4+j6h44r0IIGqJKvSGTsn+3dneuoVUFgi2sQ5LC7auKm0cMSKlkadFQzgGrTwj R31WOnaW9siXBhoykbq2dKPywQtZg6IKQMKJov5E5MWhKySmpU1hLaWSfnbg/QOF xE0YEiWBfrjBB0DXjWXbm5veN4IgEXNUMAx7/GByb3JnNuluRugpJJRKL8pCuryT SK6XrRmWos4819VpnwE/vKs5CFqZlCYuJAKeVmiknxNRhKw1/n9TZmmkfI/LZWV0 UsftBqq5NFq1Y+ap0IiJtpOQ/Stk63hqvXieoMEHtTSYhD6bVeXL+DSc57atkeKC lTRfNPsQC+X7SMhAMoJyhZSvdbI/I7QucQSakJRCxY1PkB8wj0fpTekx6fo6ms4G FBu7pPPy1tWgU26h6yLxFTqskLEd8n5vMmOxHxorMxJrdJUxtttgwNj5u3VWx2cN K4UsnB5B1m2Hcbv931eMMc59wt9DVNJHmmIT0vOnZG1pSfJSM6QqmVSuAm+kxZB9 +NrFp9f8Q7/6k7hy4eF07Yvnf5tU33z8/eM/bjz5/Ou1N3+/dEt+tvblo2cHl7/d ffj3T3/9+Ocv77zwRP781fQf =m+W0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU--
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