Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:11:58 -0600 From: "Elliot Finley" <efinleywork@efinley.com> To: "Jonathan McKeown" <jonathan@hst.org.za>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror? Message-ID: <0a5801c6cd20$dca47210$37cba1cd@emerytelcom.com> References: <200608311325.04759.jonathan@hst.org.za>
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I use gmirror for this very purpose. It works well. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan McKeown" <jonathan@hst.org.za> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 5:25 AM Subject: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror? > I'm setting up a remote server with two identical hard drives, running > FreeBSD-6.1. I want to set the drives up as a mirror for data redundancy. I > also want to be able to break the mirror when I need to update the OS or > installed software, so that if anything goes wrong with the update on one > drive I can boot back to the other one, or if all is well, re-establish the > mirror and synchronise to the updated system. I have serial console access > including BIOS console redirection. > > Based on web and Usenet/mailing list searches, gmirror looks more > straightforward for this simple case, gvinum more flexible but poorly > documented, and the most recent comments I can find (still all 6+ months ago) > seem to suggest that gvinum hasn't completely stabilised for production yet. > > Is this a fair assessment? Are there any factors I've missed? Which solution > is likely to suit the situation better? > > Jonathan > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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