Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:04:53 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> To: Matthias Schuendehuette <msch@snafu.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gvinum again? Message-ID: <20041115190453.GG2439@seekingfire.com> In-Reply-To: <200411151933.37431.msch@snafu.de> References: <5f67a8c4041114213657cdb434@mail.gmail.com> <5f67a8c404111423317b721cfe@mail.gmail.com> <1100539526.31778.18.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> <200411151933.37431.msch@snafu.de>
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On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:33:36PM +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: > Am Montag, 15. November 2004 18:25 schrieb Paul Mather: > > [...] > > I don't know if growfs is 100% robust enough yet to provide the other > > important ingredient to a true LVM storage management system a la the > > logical volume manager on AIX or AdvFS on Tru64, say. > > Yes, it is. I use (g)vinum primarily as a LVM with concat plexes on > ProLiant Servers with SmartRAID-Controllers, so mirroring and/or RAID5 > is done in hardware. > > The extension of filesystems on concat plexes works (simply) as > advertised... :-) At least *I* had no problems so far. I can also claim lots of positive experiences with this, though mostly on 4.X systems (I've only recnetly started to use 5.X systems on more than a test machine). In my case, I growfs mirrored volumes. I've also deleted unused volumes (mirrored), moved their subdisks over to another volume to increase available free space and then run growfs to take advantage of the new space. It's been problem free for me, and I found myself taking advantage of volume management to solve disk management issues (like user home directories). -T -- "Robert Metcalf [the inventor of Ethernet] says that if something comes along to replace Ethernet, it will be called ``Ethernet'', so therefore Ethernet will never die. Unix has already undergone several such transformations." -- Ken Thompson
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