From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 29 16:46:51 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 1648016A41F for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:46:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@amadeus.demon.nl) Received: from post-23.mail.nl.demon.net (post-23.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEB6543D4C for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:46:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@amadeus.demon.nl) Received: from amadeus.demon.nl ([82.161.18.200]:58501 helo=[10.0.1.2]) by post-23.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1EL1YX-0004kw-Fi; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:46:49 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1534551b050926105763c21aaf@mail.gmail.com> References: <1534551b050926105763c21aaf@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: FreeBSD usergroup Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:46:47 +0200 To: Gadi Golan X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4 + GVINUM + RAID5 = Good? 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: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:46:51 -0000 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