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Date:      Mon, 15 Nov 2004 01:26:54 -0500
From:      Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
To:        Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gvinum again?
Message-ID:  <1100500014.24190.147.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org>
In-Reply-To: <5f67a8c4041114213657cdb434@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <5f67a8c4041114213657cdb434@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 00:36 -0500, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
> I'm looking at gstat while fsck'ing a gvinum partition.  The trouble
> I'm seeing is that I don't see activity on the second disk.  Now...
> I'm using fsck -n ... just checking things ... so there's no writes,
> but does gvinum not (yet) load balance on reads?

Your observation is correct: it doesn't (yet) load balance across plexes
of mirrored volumes; geom_mirror (gmirror) does, though (and offers
various load-balancing options).

Cheers,

Paul.
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e-mail: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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