Re: State of gvinum RELENG_5 or RELENG_5_4 ?!

2005-05-12 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 12 May 2005 at 17:16:59 +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote: > Peter Orlowski wrote: > >>> At this point, I'm thinking that as far as S/W RAID goes in FreeBSD, the >>> "R" is pretty meaningless >> >> Well, "R" does not mean "redundant" but "realtime backup" ;-(. > > BTW., what is the status o

Re: State of gvinum RELENG_5 or RELENG_5_4 ?!

2005-05-12 Thread Matthias Buelow
Peter Orlowski wrote: >>At this point, I'm thinking that as far as S/W RAID goes in FreeBSD, the >>"R" is pretty meaningless > > Well, "R" does not mean "redundant" but "realtime backup" ;-(. BTW., what is the status of RaidFrame on FreeBSD? I remember some time ago people were working on inte

Re: State of gvinum RELENG_5 or RELENG_5_4 ?!

2005-05-11 Thread Peter Orlowski
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 11:42:02AM -0600, secmgr wrote: > > > >I had to erase the gmirror metadata on the intact disk to get it > >to work again. > > > What steps did you take to the gmirror the disk so you could get your > data back? I took the physically intact disk and did a gmirror clear /d

Re: State of gvinum RELENG_5 or RELENG_5_4 ?!

2005-05-11 Thread secmgr
Peter Orlowski wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:24:12AM -0600, secmgr wrote: Gabor Esperon wrote: How reliable is the gmirror subsystem? gmirror seems fine as best as I can tell. I've been running it for a few months on sata drives. I had gmirror running on two IDE drives for

Re: State of gvinum RELENG_5 or RELENG_5_4 ?!

2005-05-11 Thread Peter Orlowski
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:24:12AM -0600, secmgr wrote: > Gabor Esperon wrote: > > > >How reliable is the gmirror subsystem? > > gmirror seems fine as best as I can tell. I've been running it for a > few months on sata drives. I had gmirror running on two IDE drives for system and two SATA driv

Re: State of gvinum RELENG_5 or RELENG_5_4 ?!

2005-05-10 Thread secmgr
Gabor Esperon wrote: How reliable is the gmirror subsystem? gmirror seems fine as best as I can tell. I've been running it for a few months on sata drives. jim ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

Re: State of gvinum RELENG_5 or RELENG_5_4 ?!

2005-05-10 Thread secmgr
Edwin Brown wrote: All: I've been asked to setup a RAID-5 server using software raid. I've not worked with gvinum or vinum for that matter. I know from following the mailing lists there have been some concerns over gvinum in the 5.3-RELEASE. How are things working today? The plan would be use a 40G

State of gvinum RELENG_5 or RELENG_5_4 ?!

2005-05-10 Thread Edwin Brown
All: I've been asked to setup a RAID-5 server using software raid. I've not worked with gvinum or vinum for that matter. I know from following the mailing lists there have been some concerns over gvinum in the 5.3-RELEASE. How are things working today? The plan would be use a 40GB ATA/100 Drive f