Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:46:47 +0200 From: FreeBSD usergroup <freebsd@amadeus.demon.nl> To: Gadi Golan <ggolan@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4 + GVINUM + RAID5 = Good? Message-ID: <DC09E26B-FC59-4DB3-B33F-2D162B92CED4@amadeus.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <1534551b050926105763c21aaf@mail.gmail.com> References: <1534551b050926105763c21aaf@mail.gmail.com>
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On 26 sep 2005, at 19:57, Gadi Golan wrote: > Greetings, > I was curious to see whether or not GVINUM was stable enough and full > featured enough to reliabily support a RAID5. I installed a 5.4 > system and was supprised to find that VINUM was no longer supported > and that GVINUM was missing some of the basic features I was used to > in VINUM. Specifically I was used to being required to INIT a new > RAID5 system, but GVINUM doesnt seem to support INIT yet. Is there > any workaround for this. Does anyone know a consistent, reasonable, > and reliable way of using GVINUM to get a RAID5 system going on 5.4? > > I fully understand the limitations and complications behind using > software to do a RAID5 but I promise that for my purposes I only need > to have something that works reliabily (I dont want to loose my data) > and I want it to be cheap. VINUM was the perfect solution in the > past, it worked fine even if it was hard to use. Can GVINUM fill the > gap in the post-VINUM world? > > Thanks for your help and thoughts, > > Gadi Golan Hi Gadi, I've been running gvinum in 5.4 since p6 and it runs fine. I must admit build the RAIDS in vinum though (RAID 1 and RAID 5) Since p7 setstate is part of gvinum which makes it completely usable as far as i'm concerned. I don't know about the init command but it should work. Arno
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