From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 25 00:02:50 2004 Return-Path: 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 02BB716A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 00:02:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9802343D4C for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 00:02:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id AD6E685658; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:32:45 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:32:45 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: "Rene C. Mendoza" Message-ID: <20041125000245.GL43681@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <41A433F7.3060702@syspres.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AoBLyXwWXtFbU0pZ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41A433F7.3060702@syspres.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: GEOM vs. vinum in FreeBSD 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 00:02:50 -0000 --AoBLyXwWXtFbU0pZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 24 November 2004 at 15:10:47 +0800, Rene C. Mendoza wrote: > Hi! > > I'm supposed to mirror 2 similar disk drives using FreeBSD 5.3 The > thing is, I am confused which utility to use: vinum, gvinum, or geom. > As I understand it, geom is still fairly new but very promising. GEOM is completely different from Vinum and gvinum. > Vinum, on the other hand, seems to be stable but not as extensible > as geom. They're not related. > Gvinum seems to be mixture of the two. No, gvinum is the GEOM-aware version of Vinum and will replace it when it is complete. > Personally, I would like to try out gvinum or geom but I don't know > if these two would be suitable for production environments. Now, my > questions are: > > 1. Is gvinum mature enough for production environments? No, I don't think so. > 2. Is geom mature enough for production environments? Probably. > 3. Which among the three, vinum, gvinum or geom should you > recommend? They're not a choice. 5.3 uses GEOM, and you can't get past that. You have the choice of using Vinum (old, stable, but not updated for GEOM, so of only limited use) or gvinum (new, incomplete, will eventually replace Vinum). I wouldn't want to make the choice. Read the release notes. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --AoBLyXwWXtFbU0pZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBpSElIubykFB6QiMRArDYAJ4tzXB133wnwqfQjaW4LUTE9MwmjQCggbVA fhhT8CXx/KpWIR/E0U3JRrw= =VJNS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AoBLyXwWXtFbU0pZ--