gvinum: adding plex and subdisks to existing volume

[Ludo Koren]

     > On 23 dec 2005, at 15:25, Ludo Koren wrote:

    >>>>>>> Arno Beekman <arno.beekman at amadeus.demon.nl> writes:
    >>
    >>> On 18 dec 2005, at 18:24, Ludo Koren wrote:
    >>
    >>>> Any help appreciated, I cannot find useful hints.
    >>>> 
    >>
    >>> http://www.vinumvm.org/ http://www.freebsddiary.org/vinum.php
    >>> man 4 vinum man 8 vinum
    >>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-
    >>> vinum.html http://devel.reinikainen.net/docs/how-to/Vinum/
    >>  maybe I was not enough specific. There is not enough
    >> information about gvinum in the case. All you've mentioned is
    >> about vinum and there are some diffrences; not all commands are
    >> implemented... BTW, the addition of disk on 5.4-STABLE is
    >> causing panic. I posted the problem to the
    >> freebsd-geom at freebsd.org.
    >> 
    >> Regards,
    >> 
    >> lk
    >> 

     > hi Ludo,

     > gvinum = vinum anything you need to do to add a new drive which
     > is written on those sites can be done for gvinum as well...  at
     > least that's my experience

http://wikitest.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/GvinumManPage

specifically BUGS:

gvinum(8) does not yet fully implement all functions found in
vinum(4). Specifically, the following commands from vinum(4) are not
supported: 
...

     > if you follow the descriptions of replacing a disk and get
     > panics there might be something else that's wrong


lk