Re: GEOM, Vinum difference

2007-09-27 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 08:51 +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see that if I want to do disk striping/ concating/ mirroring, FreeBSD offers the GEOM utilities and the Vinum LVM (which fits into the GEOM architecture).

Re: GEOM, Vinum difference

2007-08-22 Thread Michel Talon
Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: Another (related) question: both gvinum and the geom utilities like gmirror and gstripe etc provide for RAID0, RAID1, and RAID3. Any advantages/ disadvantages of using one instead of the other? There has been a polemic between Greg Lehey and PJ Dawidek about the

Re: GEOM, Vinum difference

2007-08-22 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Michel Talon wrote: Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: Another (related) question: both gvinum and the geom utilities like gmirror and gstripe etc provide for RAID0, RAID1, and RAID3. Any advantages/ disadvantages of using one instead of the other? There has been a polemic between Greg Lehey and PJ

Re: GEOM, Vinum difference

2007-08-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see that if I want to do disk striping/ concating/ mirroring, FreeBSD offers the GEOM utilities and the Vinum LVM (which fits into the GEOM architecture). Why do we have two different ways of doing the same tasks -- any advantages/ disadvantages

Re: GEOM, Vinum difference

2007-08-21 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see that if I want to do disk striping/ concating/ mirroring, FreeBSD offers the GEOM utilities and the Vinum LVM (which fits into the GEOM architecture). Why do we have two different ways of doing the same tasks -- any

GEOM, Vinum difference

2007-08-20 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Hi, I see that if I want to do disk striping/ concating/ mirroring, FreeBSD offers the GEOM utilities and the Vinum LVM (which fits into the GEOM architecture). Why do we have two different ways of doing the same tasks -- any advantages/ disadvantages to either approach? I did check the