Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 01:41:03 -0700 From: Jason DiCioccio <geniusj@bluenugget.net> To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Stable <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: RAID5 Message-ID: <20010905014103.A70986@bluenugget.net> In-Reply-To: <200109041749.KAA12474@mina.soco.agilent.com> References: <20010903142145.K10812-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> <200109041749.KAA12474@mina.soco.agilent.com>
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--AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi! On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:49:31AM -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote: >=20 > I used to use vinum, but I'm now using a 3ware controller. It's > *SOOO* nice to have something that's easy to set up, yet "just works". >=20 > My issues with vinum are: >=20 > [ Note: it's been a year or two since I've used vinum, and so the > following may be out-of-date. Corrections appreciated. ] >=20 > * Once set up, vinum works well, but it takes a lot of hard reading to > set up. The actual work itself is not hard, mind you, but it's > difficult to figure out what you need to put into the config file. vinum, IMHO, has the BEST manpage I've ever seen out of an open source prod= uct. It has a ton of examples and explains things very well although it's quite lengthy. Therefore i'm not sure what the issue was with setting up the mir= ror. It might require a bit of reading at first but once you find it, you realiz= e=20 that vinum is really a cinch :) >=20 > It's *SO* much easier to configure the 3ware controller .... Never done it:) >=20 > * Vinum is not part of the GENERIC kernel. I had /usr on a > vinum-controlled partition, and upgrading FreeBSD via CDs was a royal > pain. I basically had to do the upgrade to the root drive (moving > /usr out of the way, rebuild the kernel with vinum, reboot, and then > copy/move the contents of /usr into the vinum-controlled /usr -- > bleah). >=20 > [ Today, I should be able to kldload vinum, but I don't think I can do > this at install time from the CDROM, and so I'd still have to play > games with /usr. ] >=20 > The 3ware driver is part of GENERIC, and so upgrades/installation is > completely painless. >=20 > My root partition is also on a 3ware-controlled drive; you can't do > this with vinum (vinum is, however, very cost-effective ;-). >=20 > * (This may have changed.) There is no documentation on how to do > disaster recovery with vinum. The procedure is (roughly) documented > with 3ware (although I should, but have not, admittedly, tested it). >=20 Hmm.. I think I remember seeing some documentation on disaster recovery. S= uch as detaching mirrors, etc. Cheers, -JD- --=20 Jason DiCioccio - geniusj@bsd.st - PGP Key @ http://bsd.st/~geniusj/pgpkey.= asc --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBO5XlHNNQlZYENnwIEQLu7gCgkitIrZfrIAxZDVSD5+yPDUKfqwIAn0SJ VXK4XsO8gsOAo95Ya6Eem+SM =j0Qi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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