Andrea, I have started testing with gstripe and have had good results to this point. I'm still a little unclear about how to make my stripe persistent after a reboot? My server consists of three drives. A 40GB drive that has the operating system and two 200Gb drives that I'm using for the raid 0 volume. I was also curious about a couple of other things.
- There is a .snap directory on the volume. Is this used by gstripe? - I changed the mode to fast and didn't notice any difference in my basic performance testing. Is there any advantage of using fast? - I used newfs -O 2 to create a UFS2 file system on the volume. Is this treated like any other UFS2 volume that can utilize fsck, etc? - How resiliant is this volume if the system were to crash? --Thanks! Nick On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:48:39 +0100, Andrea Venturoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Pavlica wrote: > > All, > > I would like to set up a raid 0 volume on my 5.3 server using two > > identical SATA drives. After reading through a number of documents > > I noticed that there are two related utilities to do this, Vinum and > > Gvinum. Which utility should be used? It's my understanding that > > Gvinum is the most current and should be used on 5.3+? Does the > > hadbook refer to Vinum, Gvinum or both? > > I'd reccomend you none of them; look here for detailed reasons: > http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/. > In brief, I've experienced severe panics with vinum after an upgrade > from 5.2.1 to 5.3 and gvinum is marked as alpha software and poorly > documented. > I'm quite happy with gmirror now, which the tutorial above describes. > You would use gstripe instead. > > bye > av. > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
