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John Nemeth wrote:
> On Jan 6,  6:49am, didier gaumet wrote:
> } Le Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:26:27 -0400, Louis Guillaume a écrit :
> } 
> } > I'm used to AIX's Logical Volume Management system, which is, in my 
> } > opinion, extremely cool. It's there in Linux these days too and I really 
> } > wish we had something like this (if not the thing itself) in NetBSD.
> } > 
> } > Recently I saw a message saying that vinum was removed from NetBSD. It 
> } > appeared to be the closest thing, but supposedly never worked properly.
> } 
> } Vinum seems to have been removed (temporarily?) from "base" of
> } netbsd-current and future netbsd 4.X but is still available in netbsd 3.x  
> 
>      It is permanently gone from all future releases.  It was
> unmaintained and had a number of problems.  Besides, it wasn't a true
> LVM.  It really didn't offer anything more then Raidframe.
> 
> } > Also recently, I saw a message about a `device-mapper' driver for 
> } > NetBSD. But I can't find any significant information about this either.
> } > 
> } > Is there anything like this planned or available for NetBSD?
> } 
> } I'm not well informed about logical volume management (never practiced it
> } myself), but I have heard about ccd and ccdconfig : you might take a look
> } at their man page.
> 
>      ccd is not a true LVM.  It simply allows you to combine multiple
> partitions into one.  It is primarily useful on older systems that can
> only take smaller disks.  There isn't as much use for it on systems
> with modern disks.
> 
>      Unfortunately, there is no LVM in NetBSD at the present time.
> 
> }-- End of excerpt from didier gaumet
> 
Can we upgrade ccd to full  functional LVM system,or we need to write it
from scratch?

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