From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 20 08:32:19 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4604B16A417 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:32:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rakhesh@rakhesh.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0E2513C458 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:32:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rakhesh@rakhesh.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so601074nfb for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:32:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.170.6 with SMTP id s6mr1785357hue.1187598736840; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:32:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.home.rakhesh.com ( [82.178.132.156]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 39sm2328263hui.2007.08.20.01.32.14 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:32:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obelix.home.rakhesh.com (obelix.home.rakhesh.com [192.168.17.13]) by smtp.home.rakhesh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8874D5080A for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:31:56 +0400 (GST) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:31:56 +0400 (GST) X-X-Sender: rakhesh@obelix.home.rakhesh.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070820121349.D51751@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed From: Rakhesh Sasidharan Subject: GEOM, Vinum difference X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:32:19 -0000 Hi, I see that if I want to do disk striping/ concating/ mirroring, FreeBSD offers the GEOM utilities and the Vinum LVM (which fits into the GEOM architecture). Why do we have two different ways of doing the same tasks -- any advantages/ disadvantages to either approach? I did check the archives before posting this question. Got a couple of hits, but they seem to be old info. Hence this question. The GEOM utilities seem to be newer, fancier, and probably the future. Vinum seems to be how things used to happen earlier. After GEOM was introduced, if Vinum had been discarded, I would have understood. But it wasn't. Instead, it was rewritten for GEOM and is probably still actively maintained. So I wonder why we have two ways of doing the same tasks ... What I understand from the archives is that Vinum was _probably_ rewritten for GEOM coz the GEOM utilities were still new and not as time tested as Vinum. Is that the case? So will Vinum continue to be around for a while or it be discarded? - Rakhesh http://rakhesh.com/