gvinum again?

[Paul Mather]

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 19:33 +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Montag, 15. November 2004 18:25 schrieb Paul Mather:
> > [...]
> > I don't know if growfs is 100% robust enough yet to provide the other
> > important ingredient to a true LVM storage management system a la the
> > logical volume manager on AIX or AdvFS on Tru64, say.
> 
> Yes, it is. I use (g)vinum primarily as a LVM with concat plexes on 
> ProLiant Servers with SmartRAID-Controllers, so mirroring and/or RAID5 
> is done in hardware.
> 
> The extension of filesystems on concat plexes works (simply) as 
> advertised... :-) At least *I* had no problems so far.

That's encouraging to hear!  Can you shrink volumes and filesystems like
you can on, say, AdvFS under Tru64?  That would be really nice.

Cheers,

Paul.
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