From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 9 05:00:09 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9360616A41F for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 05:00:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sty@blosphere.net) Received: from postman.riken.go.jp (postman.riken.go.jp [134.160.33.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B074E43D45 for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 05:00:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sty@blosphere.net) Received: (qmail 74683 invoked by uid 85); 9 Sep 2005 05:00:06 -0000 Received: from sty@blosphere.net by postman-smtp1.riken.go.jp by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.12 (sweep: 2.10/3.60. . Clear:. Processed in 2.063833 secs); 09 Sep 2005 05:00:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?172.16.112.32?) (134.160.173.1) by postman.riken.go.jp with SMTP; 9 Sep 2005 05:00:04 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) In-Reply-To: <20050908122600.GI20229@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <119D03CDAA26274786799627855EC43D67F53D@indy.enzo.phoenixmedical.co.uk> <20050908122600.GI20229@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <35E123E9-6EA2-47E3-9B3C-6EEB7D5326BA@blosphere.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tommi_L=E4tti?= Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 14:00:03 +0900 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) Subject: Re: vinum or gvinum X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 05:00:09 -0000 On 8.9.2005, at 21.26, Stijn Hoop wrote: > By the way, you can also consider geom_mirror, for which an excellent > article is available here: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ > > Both gvinum and gmirror approaches are able to boot from a mirrored > system > disk. It depends on other factors which one you choose. I have to vouch for gmirror system. I have three production machines here running and booting from gmirror on since 5.3-REL and they're all doing fine. Even after I upgraded 5.3 -> 5.4 and during the first boot I saw the "updating metadata" -message. Made me sweat for a few seconds. -- br, Sty