From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 26 22:02:52 2004 Return-Path: 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 1689016A4CE for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 22:02:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ox.eicat.ca (ox.eicat.ca [66.96.30.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C428C43D46 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 22:02:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: by ox.eicat.ca (Postfix, from userid 66) id E2360CA6E; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 17:02:50 -0500 (EST) Received: by canoe.dclg.ca (Postfix, from userid 101) id 10E986810; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 09:35:46 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16807.16193.988781.903136@canoe.dclg.ca> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 09:35:45 -0500 To: "Brian Szymanski" In-Reply-To: <2313.10.0.0.120.1101461554.squirrel@10.0.0.120> References: <41A45A3F.5010008@anduin.net> <20041124171115.GP7232@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <6579E984-3E47-11D9-9576-000D9335BCEC@anduin.net> <20041125101405.GB7690@kevad.internal> <41A5B95F.3060605@withagen.nl> <2313.10.0.0.120.1101461554.squirrel@10.0.0.120> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta17) "chayote" (+CVS-20040321) XEmacs Lucid cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: graid3 - requirements or manpage wrong? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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, 26 Nov 2004 22:02:52 -0000 >>>>> "Brian" == Brian Szymanski writes: >> That is not completely fair for vinum.... >> >> I've been running vinum now for the better of 3-4 years, and even >> with a set of very flaky seagate IDE drives I never lost a byte. >> Vinum has served me well, and I trust gvinum will get there as >> well. I just left my fileserver at 5.1, which I know is not an >> option for everybody. Brian> Are you using vinum Raid5 ? I'm considering rolling back to 5.1 Brian> myself if someone attests that things "just work" there with Brian> R5, then waiting for gvinum to mature before getting my machine Brian> back on stable. Brian> Also, when did vinum stop working in favor of gvinum? is it Brian> with 5.3? Could I expect 5.2.1 to work? Pardon the barrage of Brian> questions, but it would take me hours to test each case, so if Brian> anyone knows, drop me a line. Thanks! In 5.3, it appears that you can load vinum or gvinum. Vinum appears to have the functionality (and bugs) that it had back in 5.1. The only missing function seems to be the ability to swap to a vinum volume. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================