Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 18:52:41 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Aaron Smith <aaron-fbsd@mutex.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Simplifying Vinum (was: ufs/ffs resize?) Message-ID: <8846.931485161@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 27 Jun 1999 13:57:36 %2B0930." <19990627135736.F427@freebie.lemis.com>
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> I think you'll find, once you get that far, that things are anything > but trivial. I'm certainly open to suggestions, but consider: > > vinum -i /dev/something volumename > > Where does it insert it? What if the volume has more than one plex, > which it will in the case of a mirror? OK, perhaps I was getting a little carried away here. :) > Not if they're done well. I'm open to suggestions. Here are couple > of possibilities: add commands "cat", "stripe" and "mirror": > > vinum cat /dev/da1h /dev/da2h > vinum stripe /dev/da1h /dev/da2h /dev/da3h /dev/da4h > vinum mirror /dev/da1h /dev/da2h > vinum mirror /dev/da1h /dev/da2h /dev/da3h /dev/da4h These sound just fine to me! > And what about the names? It seems tacky to have to write down the > name that Vinum chooses. How about adding a name parameter, either > implicitly or explicitly? For example, > > vinum cat myvol /dev/da1h /dev/da2h > vinum cat -n myvol /dev/da1h /dev/da2h I also think that's a better proposal than mine, yes. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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