From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 8 18:52:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 858A415541 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 18:52:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA08850; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 18:52:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Greg Lehey Cc: Matthew Dillon , Aaron Smith , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Simplifying Vinum (was: ufs/ffs resize?) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 27 Jun 1999 13:57:36 +0930." <19990627135736.F427@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 18:52:41 -0700 Message-ID: <8846.931485161@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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