On Saturday, 12 July 2003 at 20:46:14 -0600, Tillman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 06:29:25PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 09:36:29AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> On Sunday, 13 July 2003 at 0:07:04 +0200, Joachim Dagerot wrote: >> .... >>>> Do anyone know other (read hardware) RAID-systems that are known to >>>> work well with freeBSD and also allows me to increase the total >>>> diskspace without dataloss? >>> >>> I don't. >> >> The problem isn't the RAID system, but the UFS file system which doesn't >> allow expansion. Vinum's ``concat'' mode allows one to add capacity, but >> not to expand the size of existing file systems. >> >> Are there any file systems that work with FreeBSD that allow expansion >> after the fact? > > Is there something about grows(8) that I'm missing? It's entirely > possible that I've missed the context or something, but I'm grown > UFS filesystems (on vinum concat's, actually) several times wih great > success.
You're not missing anything. It looks as if Bill doesn't know about growfs. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers
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