Rakhesh Sasidharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I see that if I want to do disk striping/ concating/ mirroring, > FreeBSD offers the GEOM utilities and the Vinum LVM (which fits into > the GEOM architecture). Why do we have two different ways of doing the > same tasks -- any advantages/ disadvantages to either approach? > > I did check the archives before posting this question. Got a couple of > hits, but they seem to be old info. Hence this question. > > The GEOM utilities seem to be newer, fancier, and probably the > future. Vinum seems to be how things used to happen earlier. After > GEOM was introduced, if Vinum had been discarded, I would have > understood. But it wasn't. Instead, it was rewritten for GEOM and is > probably still actively maintained. So I wonder why we have two ways > of doing the same tasks ... > > What I understand from the archives is that Vinum was _probably_ > rewritten for GEOM coz the GEOM utilities were still new and not as > time tested as Vinum. Is that the case? So will Vinum continue to be > around for a while or it be discarded?
geom(4) does not provide RAID. It provides framework services that are used by gvinum(8), (and by many other disk-related capabilities). _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
