From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 12:14:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 494CE10658BE; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:14:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjmccann@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 136968FC13; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:14:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjmccann@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so1084012rvf.43 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:14:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=S4esWqn7mtmxiocdlo37RbNVSagoTzBwDZqE2zR7zkQ=; b=BjYqA3r781ykcEoqMFaNbZGgkYme/r6ciTV3v24CifPJJJihGlWXwno2se1+CWGC11 0q8InXd2uRI35Dq66YZwkqHALfOdSYGO7Z87QHmbYJdik3IcC+darzOuaWy+ykJxsemD 39yEDGQAJFcVo4BwALlFYGihU2hRm0n0DCm0I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=asiHFgTfckNKhxwnUs2rmLWUUr4tbgpDRHxI1BjUXZ0oquoZv7mhNhV+LWW9pnyE7D v8sApg24b3YRTBFPcSuufok+zdHSzPRw4ebr3wiTC5Xn0twvYscVYta/XNSm0EJuRvoF YVc+LpDN689RNwh44rAY2fTO2MgLgxkQqInUs= Received: by 10.140.202.21 with SMTP id z21mr579354rvf.260.1232021665308; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:14:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.140.140.19 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:14:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2b5f066d0901150414jc5dedecp83747bac1915057a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:14:25 -0500 From: "Brian McCann" To: "Ulf Lilleengen" In-Reply-To: <20090115093352.GB1821@carrot> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2b5f066d0901141323j7c9a194eo4606d9769279037e@mail.gmail.com> <20090115093352.GB1821@carrot> Cc: freebsd-questions , freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gvinum & gjournal X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:14:27 -0000 On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Ulf Lilleengen wrote: > Hi, > > It think that it touches it because the .p0 contains the gjournal metadata in > the same way that the volume does, so gjournal attaches to that before the > volume. One problem is that gjournal attaches to the "wrong" provider, but > it's also silly that the provider is exposed in the first place. A fix for > this is in a newer version of gvinum (as the plex is not exposed) if you're > willing to try. > > -- > Ulf Lilleengen > At this point, I'm willing to try anything, but preferably something that's stable since this will be done to at least 15 identical devices and sent out to various places, so I won't have physical access to the machines if something were to go wrong. I looked into graid3 and booting off of a DOM/Flash card, but since I have 4 drives, that won't work since graid3 requires 2N+1 drives. The stuff I've found on graid5 seems to say that it's all still really experimental and has some bugs in it still. :( That said...if you've got it, I'll try it. :) Thanks, --Brian -- _-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_ Brian McCann "I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I've got hundreds of people waiting to abuse me." -- Bill Murray, "Ghostbusters"