newbie to hw raid and lvm

[Stephan van Beerschoten]

Hi all,

I jus this morning installed a new copy of -current onto a desktop 
platform with a raidcontroller on its motherboard.
It is a promise controller and it works.

However, I wonder now if there is such a thing as a LVM for FreeBSD ?
Vinum, I noticed, cannot help me with this, but having a blob of 160GB 
(2x 160gb mirrored) would be a lot more helpfull if I could put 
so-called softpartitions on top of it. Much like what I'm used to on the 
Solaris platform that allows me on-the-fly creations and resizes of volumes.

Also, I noticed the kernel recognized each individual disk which is part 
of my mirror. Is it possible to do anything with the raid configuration 
from a userland perspective or is this information given only because 
the kernel happends to be able to register it, but one cannot actually 
DO anything with this information ?

/Stephan