Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:30:40 +0100 From: Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Chris Smith <chris@ninjalabs.co.uk> Subject: Re: vinum problems Message-ID: <200411211630.54071.4711@chello.at> In-Reply-To: <41A099C4.9050905@list.ru> References: <1100631098.43464.10.camel@shodan.ninjalabs.co.uk> <41A099C4.9050905@list.ru>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 November 2004 14:36, Александр Деревянко wrote: [...] > From my point of view, vinum root partition is really useless. You will > never have the availability comparable to hardware RAID (i mean, > downtime), and will have a lot of troubles with booting from it. > From my own expirience, the same results as root vinum partition can be > made easily: > 1. Make a small partition on every drive in the system. 128 Megs from > every drive will be enought. > 2. Make each partition bootable, and every day (by cron job in least > activity hour) make a dump/restore from the main root partition to all > other. > 3. usr, var and all other partitions must reside on vinum partition, > using rest of the space on the partition. > 4. Swap partitions must also be made on every drive. Points 1., 2. (and 4.) also could be solved by setting up a gmirror(8) raid1 array on the partitions in question. This works w/o the dump/restore/cron and the setup process is very simple. There is also a gstripe(8) and a gconcat(8) geom-class available in 5.3. - -- Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> | OpenPGP KeyID 0x3BCA53BE OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and http://pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBoLSu09WjGjvKU74RAsVTAJ9fhTjB1ZM2xLL8qom7XjnwkSlTqwCfYFNs O3aVVBC5ksXfYc5aYrgrS8I= =xqaZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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