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<sect1 id="vinum-synopsis">
<title>Synopsis</title>
<para>No matter what disks you have, there will always be limitations:</para>
<para>No matter what disks you have, there are always potential problems:</para>
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<listitem>
<para>They can be too small.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>They can be too small.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>They can be too slow.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>They can be too slow.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>They can be too unreliable.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>They can be too unreliable.</para>
</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>This chapter provides an overview of potential problems with traditional
disk storage, and an introduction to the Vinum Volume Manager.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="vinum-intro">