Subject: RE: Vinum (was: Volume managers (was Re: someone mentioned "the 1.5 branch"...))
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Paul Newhouse <newhouse@totalarchive.com>
List: current-users
Date: 07/03/2000 01:35:49
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:45:10 +1000 Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> 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.

I'm interested but, have the same "much time" problem.  To make it really useful
the grow/shrink funtionality in the filesystem would be necessary.  I don't think
that's in the current fs ... is it?

Paul