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On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 04:48 +0200, Vladimir Botka wrote:
> Hi,
> vinum is not stable under 5.4. After some "research" I found gmirror 
> (RAID1) is ok. There are some notes on:
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/errata.html
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Vladimir.
> 
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Paul Mather wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 10:39 +0200, Claus Guttesen wrote:
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >> I may implement (g)vinum to stripe two 2 TB raid 5 volumes into a
> >> single 4 TB vinum-volume.

But geom_mirror (gmirror) would not do what the OP wants (i.e., stripe,
not mirror).

Cheers,

Paul.
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