gvinum again?

[Tillman Hodgson]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:33:36PM +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote:
> Am Montag, 15. November 2004 18:25 schrieb Paul Mather:
> > [...]
> > I don't know if growfs is 100% robust enough yet to provide the other
> > important ingredient to a true LVM storage management system a la the
> > logical volume manager on AIX or AdvFS on Tru64, say.
> 
> Yes, it is. I use (g)vinum primarily as a LVM with concat plexes on 
> ProLiant Servers with SmartRAID-Controllers, so mirroring and/or RAID5 
> is done in hardware.
> 
> The extension of filesystems on concat plexes works (simply) as 
> advertised... :-) At least *I* had no problems so far.

I can also claim lots of positive experiences with this, though mostly
on 4.X systems (I've only recnetly started to use 5.X systems on more
than a test machine). In my case, I growfs mirrored volumes. I've also
deleted unused volumes (mirrored), moved their subdisks over to another
volume to increase available free space and then run growfs to take
advantage of the new space. It's been problem free for me, and I found
myself taking advantage of volume management to solve disk management
issues (like user home directories).

-T


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