Previous Sections

Introduction
The problems
Current implementations
How Vinum addresses the Three Problems
The big picture
Some examples
Increased resilience: RAID-5
Object naming
Startup
Performance issues
The implementation
Driver structure
Availability
Future directions

References

[CMD] CMD Technology, Inc June 1993, The Need For RAID, An Introduction.

[Cybernet] The NetMAX Station. The first product using the Vinum Volume Manager.

[FreeBSD] FreeBSD home page.

[IBM] AIX Version 4.3 System Management Guide: Operating System and Devices, Logical Volume Storage Overview

[Linux] Logical Volume Manager for Linux,

[McKusick] Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels, John S. Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System, Addison Wesley, 1996.

[OpenSource] The Open Source Page.

[rawio]A raw disk I/O benchmark.

[SCO] SCO Virtual Disk Manager. This document gives a good overview of a technology similar to Vinum.

[Solstice] DiskSuite

[Veritas] The VERITAS volume manager

[Wong] Brian Wong, RAID: What does it mean to me?, SunWorld Online, September 1995.