Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 09:04:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum problems in 5.3-BETA7? Message-ID: <200410081604.i98G4hwb011870@realtime.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <1097250775.3237.28.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org>
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Paul Mather wrote: > Vinum is known broken in 5.3. :-) You should be using geom_vinum > instead. It will largely be a drop-in replacement for your above Vinum > configuration. (I am using it on a similar root-on-vinum setup.) The > main changes are these: What I need to know is whether the raid5 support in gvinum is solid, yet. I would dearly love to move my desktop system from 4-stable to RELENG_5, but I have two rather large vinum raid5 filesystems that I really need to keep. Is anyone actually using raid5 with gvinum on RELENG_5? If so, how stable is it? (The last I heard, there were still potential data corruption problems, but I'm hoping that those have been fixed by now.) -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/
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