Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:25:26 -0500 From: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> To: Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gvinum again? Message-ID: <1100539526.31778.18.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> In-Reply-To: <5f67a8c404111423317b721cfe@mail.gmail.com> References: <5f67a8c4041114213657cdb434@mail.gmail.com> <1100500014.24190.147.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> <5f67a8c404111423317b721cfe@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 02:31 -0500, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 01:26:54 -0500, Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> wrote:
>
> > Your observation is correct: it doesn't (yet) load balance across plexes
> > of mirrored volumes; geom_mirror (gmirror) does, though (and offers
> > various load-balancing options).
>
> Is this something planned for the near future? I'm migrating legacy
> units here, so I don't really have a choice.
I don't know about the *near* future, but I believe it is on
Lukas' (le@freebsd.org) list of things to do. You'd probably have to
ask him how high it is on the list, though.
> ... also ... I suspect, whatever form it eventually takes, that volume
> management and geom and/or vinum is essential.
I my case I had a legacy root-on-vinum all-mirrored setup, and so was
interested in mirroring more than LVM. (Like many, I'd used vinum just
as a way of accomplishing a software RAID 1 across two drives to provide
extra tolerance to drive failures.) So, migrating from geom_vinum to
geom_mirror was not such a burden (or a hurdle).
I don't know if growfs is 100% robust enough yet to provide the other
important ingredient to a true LVM storage management system a la the
logical volume manager on AIX or AdvFS on Tru64, say.
Cheers,
Paul.
--
e-mail: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu
"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
--- Frank Vincent Zappa
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1100539526.31778.18.camel>