Re: What is the status of gvinum in FreeBSD 5.3?
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 04:57:33PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: I was wondering about the status of gvinum in 5.3. I seem to remember that there were a lot of problems with gvinum in 5.3, but searching around, I can't seem to find anything that says for sure one way or the other. I'm just trying to seperate the FUD from the reality. Is there anywhere that has the status? Anyone using gvinum that can say how reliable it is or isn't? I understand that there are GEOM classes available that have some of the functionality of vinum that I could use instead, but there are two reasons that these aren't an option for me. 1) I'm wanting to migrate 4.X machines with existing vinum volumes to 5, and I'd rather not dump/restore. FreeBSD 5.x also has the original vinum implementation plus gvinum so it should be possible to use that instead of needing to dump/restore. Though I think that there are a couple of limitations like no swap on the original vinum do to the addition of GEOM. 2) There is at least one feature that vinum has that I don't see in any GEOM class, that I'm using. That is the ability to add subdisks and use growfs to enlarge filesystems without having to dump/restore. I think that either geom_ccd or geom_concat will allow you to concat more drives in and then use growfs to expand the fs. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What is the status of gvinum in FreeBSD 5.3?
I was wondering about the status of gvinum in 5.3. I seem to remember that there were a lot of problems with gvinum in 5.3, but searching around, I can't seem to find anything that says for sure one way or the other. I'm just trying to seperate the FUD from the reality. Is there anywhere that has the status? Anyone using gvinum that can say how reliable it is or isn't? I understand that there are GEOM classes available that have some of the functionality of vinum that I could use instead, but there are two reasons that these aren't an option for me. 1) I'm wanting to migrate 4.X machines with existing vinum volumes to 5, and I'd rather not dump/restore. 2) There is at least one feature that vinum has that I don't see in any GEOM class, that I'm using. That is the ability to add subdisks and use growfs to enlarge filesystems without having to dump/restore. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com pgpemyBLfMYFO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: What is the status of gvinum in FreeBSD 5.3?
On Feb 17, 2005, at 3:57 PM, Bill Moran wrote: I was wondering about the status of gvinum in 5.3. I seem to remember that there were a lot of problems with gvinum in 5.3, but searching around, I can't seem to find anything that says for sure one way or the other. IIRC the problem is with classic vinum in 5.3, not gvinum. However gvinum is not claimed to be complete or finished. I created a vinum striped array of 2 drives in 5.2.1 which caused a fair bit of trouble (rarely remembered its configure on reboot). But when I switched to gvinum (forgot exactly when) the machine has been trouble free. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is the status of gvinum in FreeBSD 5.3?
Original Message: - From: David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:44:43 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the status of gvinum in FreeBSD 5.3? On Feb 17, 2005, at 3:57 PM, Bill Moran wrote: I was wondering about the status of gvinum in 5.3. I seem to remember that there were a lot of problems with gvinum in 5.3, but searching around, I can't seem to find anything that says for sure one way or the other. IIRC the problem is with classic vinum in 5.3, not gvinum. However gvinum is not claimed to be complete or finished. I created a vinum striped array of 2 drives in 5.2.1 which caused a fair bit of trouble (rarely remembered its configure on reboot). But when I switched to gvinum (forgot exactly when) the machine has been trouble free. Forgive my client, i'm reduced to mail2web.com for mail while i'm away from my laptop. I run a FBSD 5.2.1 box using VINUM with a nearly 1 terabyte RAID5 array (Vinum has problems with 1+ TB filesystems) The RAID5 array is super-stable, surviving system reboots and power failures flawlessly. In the 2 months it's been online and heavily used it has never missed a beat. I'm not sure about the capabilities/availability of gvinum or any software raid in 5.3, but i can attest to the speed and robustness of vinum in 5.2.1 for sure. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
