volume management

[Eric Anderson]

On 04/08/07 13:57, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Gergely CZUCZY <phoemix at harmless.hu> writes:
>> yeap, i know about ZFS, as i assume, it will need around 1.5-2 years
>> from now, when 7.0-RELEASE will be ready.
> 
> No, it's expected this fall.
> 
>> and i'm looking for a solution for a production environment within
>> a year.
> 
> There is no other solution.

How about gconcat?  You could create a mirror, then gconcat another 
mirror, etc, extending the GEOM.  Then run growfs on that extended 
volume.  Wouldn't that work?


>> on-the-fly growfs is not required. stopping the service for a few
>> minutes can be done, since we've got enough redundancy in our
>> server farm.
>> and UFS2 has growfs(8), that would be enough.
> 
> I suspect growfs(8) may take more than a few minutes...
> 
> DES