Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 18:32:31 +0200 From: Stephan van Beerschoten <stephanb@whacky.net> To: newbie@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: newbie to hw raid and lvm Message-ID: <40E8311F.9060100@whacky.net>
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Hi all, I jus this morning installed a new copy of -current onto a desktop platform with a raidcontroller on its motherboard. It is a promise controller and it works. However, I wonder now if there is such a thing as a LVM for FreeBSD ? Vinum, I noticed, cannot help me with this, but having a blob of 160GB (2x 160gb mirrored) would be a lot more helpfull if I could put so-called softpartitions on top of it. Much like what I'm used to on the Solaris platform that allows me on-the-fly creations and resizes of volumes. Also, I noticed the kernel recognized each individual disk which is part of my mirror. Is it possible to do anything with the raid configuration from a userland perspective or is this information given only because the kernel happends to be able to register it, but one cannot actually DO anything with this information ? /Stephan
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