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From: "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>
To: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: SAN/NAS options
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On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:56:10AM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:
 You'll note that I'm being somewhat driven by my OS of choice, FreeBSD. 
> Unlike Solaris or other commercial offerings, there is no nice volume 
> management available.  While I'd love to keep managing a dozen or so 
> FreeBSD boxes, I could be persuaded to go to Solaris x86 if the volume 
> management really shines and Postgres performs well on it.

Have you looked at vinum? It might not qualify as a true volume manager,
but it's still pretty handy.
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