Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:45:25 +0930 From: Alastair Watts <awatts@pett.com.au> To: "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gvinum behaviour on disk failure Message-ID: <44F2EC6D.4010704@pett.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20060828102151.94147.qmail@web30306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060828102151.94147.qmail@web30306.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Hi Arne, R. B. Riddick wrote: > I say, did u consider migrating to gmirror or graid3? > Or even graid5? ;-)) I use gmirror as much as I can! I used gvinum this time though as the disks are slightly different.. ad0 is 38166MB while ad2 is 38204MB and as far as I know, drives need to be identical sizes for gmirror to work. Is there a way to use gmirror with these two drives? > As far as I know, gvinum is not so good supported and has a lot of > dysfunctions/malfunctions and is just contained for people who want to stay > with vinum... vinum isnt so good supported since R5.X... But I am sure that > vinum was somewhen in R3/R4 a very good software-RAID-tool... I will never > forget it... Yes... I noticed gvinum was very different to Greg's original vinum suite ;) But this seems to be a fundamental thing that's missing from gvinum - the ability to recover from a drive failure and to be able to service the request from a different plex. Thoughts? Cheers, Al
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