growfs on vinum volume

Ludo Koren lk at tempest.sk
Wed Mar 31 02:32:27 PST 2004



    >>> It has 'historical' reason. I started with vinum, when it was
    >>> not possible to mirror root partition (at least I found just
    >>> document 'Bootstrapping Vinum: A Foundation for Reliable
    >>> Servers' by R. A. Van Valzah in 2001 or 2002 on
    >>> www.freebsd.org)

    >> There has never been any reason to have more than one drive per
    >> module.  You're confusing drives and subdisks.

     > I think he meant that he original had a root partition and a
     > vinum partition, and later converted the root partition to
     > another vinum partition.  

Exactly. That I meant by 'historical' reason.


     > =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser

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