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. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461