From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 17 15:14:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7667E14C18 for ; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 15:14:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Kp) with ESMTP id XAA91738; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 23:13:56 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3790FFFC.D0AAB31C@tdx.co.uk> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 23:13:16 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Johnston Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum is cool. anyone bitten recently? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Craig Johnston wrote: > > Well, I'm looking into doing striping and mirroring on a new webserver > I am bringing up (3.2-stable) and I have to say, vinum looks very cool. > It took me like half an hour to get it going from first contact. > > Nice job Greg -- very straightforward. > > Now, the official status of vinum is still alpha, right? But then > again I know that that was (is?) the official status of softupdates > for quite some time and I have been using it with no problems. Hi, We've been running vinum for quite a while on a number of systems... It's not 'bitten' us for a while, but it is _extremly_ intolerant of bad drives/termination/hardware etc. In fact, I would go as far as saying, nothing stresses the system more than building the world with a high -j factor on Vinum drives :-) We have 2 x 4.0-Current boxes running Vinum, and 1 x 3.2-Release box running vinum - all are healthy so far (Though two of the systems did have a couple of problems from the outset, which have recently been cured through 'better' setups (i.e. SCSI bus configuration etc.)... Having said that - it is 'alpha' / new - and you should take appropriate precautions... i.e. Don't bet your life on it, and as _always_ have nice regular backups... :) -Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message