volume management

Jeremie Le Hen jeremie at le-hen.org
Tue Apr 10 07:17:15 UTC 2007


Hi, Dag-Erling, Eric,

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 05:42:18PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Eric Anderson <anderson at freebsd.org> writes:
> > On 04/08/07 13:14, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> There's a patch in <URL:http://people.freebsd.org/~des/software/>.
> It's quite old, though.  The file system that held my glvm tree
> crashed, so it only exists as a compressed dump right now.  I'll try
> to get it back from the dead tomorrow, and possibly stick it in p4.

Is there any difference between "glvm" and gvirstor ?  I suppose there
are at least a few, but what are them ?

Thank you for this work at any rate, this feature is really lacking!
Best regards,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
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