Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 04:48:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Vladimir Botka <vlado@botka.homeunix.org> To: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Cc: Claus Guttesen <kometen@gmail.com> Subject: Re: vinum or gvinum on FreeBSD 5.4 Message-ID: <20050422043444.O6842@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1114123141.43365.122.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> References: <b41c755205042101398046ab4@mail.gmail.com> <1114123141.43365.122.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org>
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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. The volumes reside on a atabeast doing the >> raid 5. The server is a 5.4 RC2 doing nfs on i386. >> >> According to some threads gvinum may not be completely stable (in 5.3, >> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2004-11/0537.html) >> when doing raid 5 but works fine when striping. >> >> Should I go vinum or gvinum? Will newfs have problems with a 4 TB >> volume? Are there any performance-degradation doing striping? > > In addition to vinum and gvinum, have you considered geom_stripe? See > gstripe(8) for details. I've been using it for a while on 5-STABLE to > join two 65 GB slices on two different drives into a single 130 GB > device (/dev/stripe/data in my case). I have had no stability problems, > which is why I mention this as a possible solution for you if you're > worried about the stability of vinum or gvinum in 5.x. > > Cheers, > > Paul. > -- > e-mail: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu > > "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production > deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." > --- Frank Vincent Zappa > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >
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