ufs2 on a vinum volume

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at FreeBSD.org
Wed Nov 26 14:59:20 PST 2003


On Wednesday, 26 November 2003 at 13:52:02 -0600, F. Even wrote:
> I am installing 5.1R on a P3-700 w/ 2 9GB SCSI drives.  I would like
> to use UFS2 along with all of the extended attributes, ACL's, etc.  If
> I use vinum on this system, will I still be able to use and take
> advantage of all of the features of UFS2?

Yes.

> I'm wondering, as part of the process of setting up vinum indicates
> I have to define partitions as type "vinum."

Partitions and file systems are not the same thing.  Partitions are
slices of disk, while file systems have much more complicated
structures.  Vinum volumes look like slices to the file system.

Greg
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