From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 24 07:03:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0395816A4CF for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:03:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from station189.com (station189.com [203.194.198.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2CD1743D58 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:03:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rene.mendoza@syspres.com) Received: (qmail 19367 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2004 06:59:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.110?) (210.213.184.234) by station189.com with SMTP; 24 Nov 2004 06:59:49 -0000 Message-ID: <41A433F7.3060702@syspres.com> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:10:47 +0800 From: "Rene C. Mendoza" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041109) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: GEOM vs. vinum in FreeBSD 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:03:01 -0000 Hi! I'm supposed to mirror 2 similar disk drives using FreeBSD 5.3 The thing is, I am confused which utility to use: vinum, gvinum, or geom. As I understand it, geom is still fairly new but very promising. Vinum, on the other hand, seems to be stable but not as extensible as geom. Gvinum seems to be mixture of the two. Personally, I would like to try out gvinum or geom but I don't know if these two would be suitable for production environments. Now, my questions are: 1. Is gvinum mature enough for production environments? 2. Is geom mature enough for production environments? 3. Which among the three, vinum, gvinum or geom should you recommend? thanks in advance! Rene C. Mendoza