From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 20 01:43:02 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83FD916A4CE for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2005 01:43:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (joel.tallye.com [216.99.199.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B246343D45 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2005 01:43:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lorenl@alzatex.com) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (hosea.tallye.com [127.0.0.1]) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1K1h0Xq006334 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 19 Feb 2005 17:43:01 -0800 Received: (from sttng359@localhost) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10/Submit) id j1K1gxS0006332; Sat, 19 Feb 2005 17:42:59 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: hosea.tallye.com: sttng359 set sender to lorenl@alzatex.com using -f Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 17:42:59 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" To: Bill Moran Message-ID: <20050220014259.GA4471@alzatex.com> References: <20050217165733.28e0c57e.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050217165733.28e0c57e.wmoran@potentialtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc X-GPG-Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the status of gvinum in FreeBSD 5.3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 01:43:02 -0000 On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 04:57:33PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > I was wondering about the status of gvinum in 5.3. > > I seem to remember that there were a lot of problems with gvinum in 5.3, > but searching around, I can't seem to find anything that says for sure > one way or the other. > > I'm just trying to seperate the FUD from the reality. Is there anywhere > that has the status? Anyone using gvinum that can say how reliable it > is or isn't? > > I understand that there are GEOM classes available that have some of > the functionality of vinum that I could use instead, but there are > two reasons that these aren't an option for me. > 1) I'm wanting to migrate 4.X machines with existing vinum volumes to > 5, and I'd rather not dump/restore. FreeBSD 5.x also has the original vinum implementation plus gvinum so it should be possible to use that instead of needing to dump/restore. Though I think that there are a couple of limitations like no swap on the original vinum do to the addition of GEOM. > 2) There is at least one feature that vinum has that I don't see in > any GEOM class, that I'm using. That is the ability to add subdisks > and use growfs to enlarge filesystems without having to dump/restore. I think that either geom_ccd or geom_concat will allow you to concat more drives in and then use growfs to expand the fs. > > -- > Bill Moran > Potential Technologies > http://www.potentialtech.com -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C