volume management

[Ivan Voras]

Gergely CZUCZY wrote:

> 1) to increment them, i need a device(disk/slice/label/etc).
> if i increment a lot, i need a lot of devices.

Are you concerned about the number of entries in the /dev file system? Why?

> 2) these incrementum-devices (the ones i increment by),
> have to be made, each of the has to be chopped from the
> storage pool.

The whole GEOM tree is your storage pool.

> please also look at the bsdlabel issue i have mentioned.
> gconcating is the most easy part of that. recursively
> bsdlabeling is what i have mostly referred to as the
> real issue. i really don't think this is the way to
> do it...

If I understood you correctly, your problem is that you don't want to 
use entire drives for extending your file systems, but only parts of 
them, right?


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