From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 10 17: 2:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from folly.lemis.com (static221.conference.usenix.org [209.179.127.221]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B58D154BF for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 17:02:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@folly.lemis.com) Received: (grog@localhost) by folly.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.6.12) id QAA00794; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:21:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19990610161857.42141@folly.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:18:57 -0700 From: Greg Lehey To: Christopher Michaels , Daniel Malament , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum installation References: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB440110594B@site2s1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB440110594B@site2s1>; from Christopher Michaels on Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 02:58:38PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 3 June 1999 at 14:58:38 -0400, Christopher Michaels wrote: >> On Thursday, June 03, 1999 2:41 PM, Daniel Malament wrote: >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: vinum installation >> >> Hey all. I'm trying to install vinum, but I'm having some problems. The >> biggest on is that the makefile is looking for stuff under >> /usr/src/sys/dev/vinum, which doesn't exist on our system. Do I have to >> blow away /usr/src/sys and reinstall from ftp.freebsd.org? (This is a >> 2.2.8 system, btw.) Am I just missing something? >> >> Also, I'm hoping to use it to mirror a drive. How stable is vinum at this >> point? At "this point", Vinum is very stable. However, 2.2.8 is not "this point". There are a number of unfixed problems in the 2.2.8 version, including one relating to building. I won't have time to look at this version for at least two weeks. >> Will I be able to use the mirrored drive easily if the main one >> crashes? Yes. >> Am I better off just using rdist in a nightly cron job? That depends on what you want to do. Normally, the answer would be an emphatic "no". > 1. Did you get the tarball from ftp.lemis.com, and which one did you get? > 2. Did you follow the instructions in the README. > > It says in there that you are supposed to cd /usr/src and then untar the > files there. > Take a look at ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/vinum/README > > As far as stability, I haven't heard much trouble with it. I'm using vinum > but only for concatenation. Personally I think, even if you are mirroring, > you should still do backups anyway. :) Correct. No RAID system can protect against finger trouble. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message