From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 15 03:42:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org 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 2840016A41C for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 03:42:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dkelly@HiWAAY.net) Received: from smtp.knology.net (smtp.knology.net [24.214.63.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B1DE43D46 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 03:42:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dkelly@HiWAAY.net) Received: (qmail 3480 invoked by uid 0); 15 Jul 2005 03:42:22 -0000 Received: from user-69-73-60-132.knology.net (HELO ?10.0.0.6?) (69.73.60.132) by smtp5.knology.net with SMTP; 15 Jul 2005 03:42:22 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) In-Reply-To: <42D709AC.4080002@os.lv> References: <42D6683E.7040406@os.lv> <58488053-6525-49BB-846A-03845A162020@amadeus.demon.nl> <20050714144907.GA24229@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <20050714183617.GA25319@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <42D709AC.4080002@os.lv> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <6F47B75F-86F4-41FF-B9D5-31E9BDC2C4D7@HiWAAY.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: David Kelly Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:42:20 -0500 To: FreeBSD_Questions FreeBSD_Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.733) Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.x raid... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 03:42:24 -0000 On Jul 14, 2005, at 7:56 PM, Casper wrote: > I can`t find gvinum man on my 5.4 and in google too :) What I was told a year ago was that vinum development and support in the 5.x series had ceased and that gvinum was slated to replace vinum. As I said previously vinum worked once running but had about a 50/50 probability of remembering my configuration between reboots. Simply changing the startup file /etc/rc.d/vinum to start gvinum rather than vinum solved the problem completely using the drives configured with vinum without rebuilding the volume. Gvinum is necessary due to internal changes in FreeBSD due to GEOM. It has also been said that gvinum does not yet have all the features of vinum. What its lacking, I can't say. > I`m thinking for my server better tool is gmirror? Gvinum worked for my striped volume. I can't say how gmirror differs from gvinum. Maybe someone who has run both will speak. The "gvinum mirror" command I provided earlier should have you up and running very quickly. Suggest you try it. Beat on the system. Practice removing a plex, trashing it as if it were a new drive, then rebuilding the mirror. Then do the same for gmirror. Now is the right time to play with it before the system goes into production and becomes too precious to play with. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.