Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:42:40 -0500 From: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> To: Nikolaj Hansen <nikolaj.hansen@barnabas.dk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2 Message-ID: <1103654560.93140.49.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> In-Reply-To: <20041221180053.GA27653@sauron.barnabas.dk> References: <41C48A6F.7000203@barnabas.dk> <200412191050.52445.msch@snafu.de> <20041219230407.GA932@sauron.barnabas.dk> <200412201835.23863.msch@snafu.de> <20041221180053.GA27653@sauron.barnabas.dk>
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On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 19:00 +0100, Nikolaj Hansen wrote:
> I also do not think it belongs in the stable branch just yet :-D Any hope
> of you fixing the old vinum in the 5.3 branch or is it a wait for the 5.4?
AFAIK, the old vinum will *never* be "fixed" in the 5.3 branch or any
subsequent branch, so don't hold your breath for 5.4. The fact that it
wasn't being fully GEOM-ified (and hence was dying from neglect in 5.x)
was the whole reason for Lukas to embark on geom_vinum.
Geom_vinum *is* vinum for all intents and purposes, from this point on.
The alternative to not having geom_vinum in the stable branch would be
not to have vinum support at all.
Cheers,
Paul.
PS: If you're unhappy with geom_vinum stability and performance, and
you're using it mainly to do software RAID 1 (as opposed to using it for
its LVM features), you might consider using geom_mirror instead. I
converted one of my root-on-geom_vinum mirrored systems over to a
bootable geom_mirror. (I did it in-place, too.) Right now, geom_mirror
will load-balance reads across disks, whereas geom_vinum does not, which
is something in geom_mirror's favour.
--
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."
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