Re: FreeBSD 5.3+ Vinum or Gvinum

2005-03-16 Thread Nick Pavlica
John, That did the trick. I built a new kernel with the GEOM_STRIPE option and added an entry to my fstab to mount the volume(stripe) and everything worked like a charm. In the end this turned out to be much simpler than I had anticipated. I wish this information would have been available in t

Re: FreeBSD 5.3+ Vinum or Gvinum

2005-03-16 Thread John Pettitt
Nick Pavlica wrote: >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

Re: FreeBSD 5.3+ Vinum or Gvinum

2005-03-16 Thread Nick Pavlica
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

Re: FreeBSD 5.3+ Vinum or Gvinum

2005-03-15 Thread Nick Pavlica
Hi Doug, I will take a look at this. Have you used it on any production servers? How does it compare to vinum/gvinum in terms of performance reliability? --Thanks! Nick On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:04:31 -0600, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:01:06PM -0700, Nick

Re: FreeBSD 5.3+ Vinum or Gvinum

2005-03-15 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:01:06PM -0700, 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 u

FreeBSD 5.3+ Vinum or Gvinum

2005-03-15 Thread Nick Pavlica
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 c