volume management

[Eric Anderson]

On 04/08/07 13:14, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Gergely CZUCZY <phoemix at harmless.hu> writes:
>> I'm looking for a disk organization, volume-management feature in
>> freebsd, something like LVM-like in a kind of way.  Currently on our
>> linux boxes we are using LVM to organize the disks under our
>> content-drives. This means, we allocate a we-think-it-will-be-enough
>> space for a service from a storage pool for each service on the
>> actual box, and if later on the givenm space turns out not to be
>> enough, we increase that amount and grow the FS on it.
> 
> ZFS in -CURRENT does that and more.  I also have unfinished code for a
> GEOM-based LVM, but none of FreeBSD's file systems support on-the-fly
> resizing, so ZFS is really your best option.


Is that code available in P4 somewhere (or elsewhere)?  Sounds 
interesting.


Eric