5.4 + GVINUM + RAID5 = Good?

FreeBSD usergroup freebsd at amadeus.demon.nl
Thu Sep 29 09:46:51 PDT 2005


On 26 sep 2005, at 19:57, Gadi Golan wrote:

> Greetings,
> I was curious to see whether or not GVINUM was stable enough and full
> featured enough to reliabily support a RAID5.  I installed a 5.4
> system and was supprised to find that VINUM was no longer supported
> and that GVINUM was missing some of the basic features I was used to
> in VINUM.  Specifically I was used to being required to INIT a new
> RAID5 system, but GVINUM doesnt seem to support INIT yet.  Is there
> any workaround for this.  Does anyone know a consistent, reasonable,
> and reliable way of using GVINUM to get a RAID5 system going on 5.4?
>
> I fully understand the limitations and complications behind using
> software to do a RAID5 but I promise that for my purposes I only need
> to have something that works reliabily (I dont want to loose my data)
> and I want it to be cheap.  VINUM was the perfect solution in the
> past, it worked fine even if it was hard to use.  Can GVINUM fill the
> gap in the post-VINUM world?
>
> Thanks for your help and thoughts,
>
> Gadi Golan

Hi Gadi,

I've been running gvinum in 5.4 since p6 and it runs fine.
I must admit build the RAIDS in vinum though (RAID 1 and RAID 5)
Since p7 setstate is part of gvinum which makes it completely usable  
as far as i'm concerned.

I don't know about the init command but it should work.

Arno


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