Re: Vinum performance testing...

1999-09-15 Thread Jeremy McMillan
* skip the following three paragraphs if you're not interested in the politics * This is funny. Not funny "ha ha", but I think it's actually indicative of the high quality of free software: we have to argue whether pre-release features/functionality should be used in critical production

Re: Vinum performance testing...

1999-09-15 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 02:09 PM 9/15/99 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: Perhaps we're seeing this differently, but "sworn off vinum" says to me "never using it again", and that's the point I was trying to make. People try something that's still under development, get bitten, and then claim forever after that the

Re: Vinum performance testing...

1999-09-15 Thread Brad Knowles
At 7:11 PM -0500 1999/9/15, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: Well Greg considers it a "release" anyway and no longer alpha. Surely it may be "under development" still, but then isn't -stable? My apologies. I was under the impression that it was still considered alpha code, but then I

Re: Vinum performance testing...

1999-09-15 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 03:45 AM 9/16/99 +0800, Michael Robinson wrote: Also, keep in mind that vinum does very little in the way of sanity checking. It's very happy to trash your data if you tell it to do something even a little bit unusual. Like anything it will only do what you tell it, so in a way I'm of

Re: Vinum performance testing...

1999-09-15 Thread Chad R. Larson
As I recall, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: This is in line with what I would expect for RAID 0 and 1. CPU usage just makes the I/O performance measurements more compelling. CPU will also be more interesting when it comes to measuring the RAID 5 performance later. And you'd

Re: Vinum performance testing...

1999-09-15 Thread Michael Robinson
"Jeffrey J. Mountin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Like anything it will only do what you tell it, so in a way I'm of agreement. My biggest objection to vinum is that it will do what you tell it to, and then complain afterwards, rather than complain about it at the time you try to do it. Two good

Re: Vinum performance testing...

1999-09-15 Thread Michael Robinson
Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, keep in mind that vinum does very little in the way of sanity checking. It's very happy to trash your data if you tell it to do something even a little bit unusual. After getting seriously burned (fortunately, during initial system configuration),

Re: Vinum performance testing...

1999-09-15 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 02:30 AM 9/16/99 +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: My apologies. I was under the impression that it was still considered alpha code, but then I guess if it was it probably wouldn't have migrated to the -STABLE tree, now would it? None needed, but we're not the only ones that assumed that