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Move around the text of the Vinum introduction a bit, in an effort to

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make more meaningful the text of the paragraph:

  <para><emphasis>Vinum</emphasis> is a so-called <emphasis>Volume
    Manager</emphasis>, a virtual disk driver that addresses these
    three problems.  Let us look at them in more detail.  Various
    solutions to these problems have been proposed and
    implemented.</para>

which seemed very out of place in the previous version of the text.

Noticed by:	ganbold@micom.mng.net
Patch by:	yours truly
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Giorgos Keramidas 2007-03-06 22:47:35 +00:00
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@ -42,16 +42,18 @@
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>One way some users safeguard themselves against such issues is
through the use of multiple, and sometimes redundant, disks.</para>
<para>In addition to supporting various cards and controllers for hardware
RAID systems, the base FreeBSD system includes the Vinum Volume Manager,
a block device driver that implements virtual disk drives.</para>
<para>Vinum provides more flexibility, performance, and reliability than
traditional disk storage, and implements RAID-0, RAID-1, and RAID-5
models both individually and in combination.</para>
<para>Various solutions to these problems have been proposed and
implemented. One way some users safeguard themselves against such
issues is through the use of multiple, and sometimes redundant,
disks. In addition to supporting various cards and controllers
for hardware RAID systems, the base FreeBSD system includes the
Vinum Volume Manager, a block device driver that implements
virtual disk drives. <emphasis>Vinum</emphasis> is a
so-called <emphasis>Volume Manager</emphasis>, a virtual disk
driver that addresses these three problems. Vinum provides more
flexibility, performance, and reliability than traditional disk
storage, and implements RAID-0, RAID-1, and RAID-5 models both
individually and in combination.</para>
<para>This chapter provides an overview of potential problems with
traditional disk storage, and an introduction to the Vinum Volume
@ -75,6 +77,7 @@
Vinum implementation is no longer available in the code
base.</para>
</note>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="vinum-intro">
@ -83,13 +86,6 @@
<indexterm><primary>Vinum</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>RAID</primary>
<secondary>software</secondary></indexterm>
<para><emphasis>Vinum</emphasis> is a so-called <emphasis>Volume
Manager</emphasis>, a virtual disk driver that addresses these
three problems. Let us look at them in more detail. Various
solutions to these problems have been proposed and
implemented:</para>
<para>Disks are getting bigger, but so are data storage
requirements. Often you will find you want a file system that