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On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Greg Lehey wrote:

>On Friday, 23 June 2000 at  9:33:48 -0700, Paul Newhouse wrote:
>>
>> On 06/13/2000 10:16:00 David Rankin <drankin@bohemians.lexington.ky.us> wrote:
>>
>>> The "real solution" would be to have a volume manager (similar to
>>>IBM's LVM, Vinum, etc.),
>>
>> Where is the source for Vinum?  The lemis page sends me to FreeBSD
>> and the FreeBSD page sends me to lemis.
>
>It's currently part of FreeBSD.  I'm thinking of porting to NetBSD,
>but I don't have much time.  If anybody's interested in participating,
>please contact me.

OK, I'm pretty familiar with RAIDFrame (read: am using it semi-heavily
in production), and have read the papers on both RAIDFrame and Vinum.  
Can those in the know comment on what, if anything, Vinum provides that
RF does not?  Vice versa?

Not trying to stoke any flames, just curious to see a comparison of the
two.

To start the ball rolling, things which I like about RF include:

  * Simple configuration
  * / on RAID, and component based RAID autoconfig (though I am not
    using this in production at the moment)
  * orthogonal/flexible (RAID of RAIDs?  No problem!)
  * good integration into NetBSD
  * good performance

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				Jim Wise
				jwise@draga.com


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