[olug] Fibre Channel on Linux

[troehr at nj-onramp.com]

That is what a Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is for.

Tom Roehr

Quoting Bill Brush <bbrush at unlnotes.unl.edu>:

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> 
> 
> Andrew Embury <drazak at ingenii.com> wrote on 08/25/2004 10:39:45 AM:
> 
> >
> > The thing that appeals to me is they let me grow my disk usage as my
> > application needs grow.
> 
> One of the big benefits of the SAN.
> 
> > For example, I can start out with 300GB, and add
> > GB as my application grows.  Would this mean I would format a 300GB
> > filesystem to begin with?
> 
> You could certainly do that.  Or you could reserve some space for later.
> 
> >How would one expand the FS as additional disk
> > is purcahsed?
> >
> 
> I'm not sure how much support for dynamic expansion of disk sizes the
> current Linux file system options have, but *Nix is made to handle this
> sort of thing fairly easily.  Instead of expanding a partition after the
> disk size increases you could simply make an additional partition with a
> mount point wherever you want in the original file system.  There are
> probably limits to the number of times you can do this, but this would be
> an easy solution.
> 
> 
> > Thanks for your time.
> >
> No problem.
> 
> Bill
> 
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