freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

[secmgr]

Matthias Schuendehuette wrote:

>I'm not sure if this is a problem of (g)vinum or if FreeBSD has other 
>problems in this area.
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just logged a  kern bug on this

>And we all have to consider that gvinum is in a relatively early 
>development phase (IMHO) - it is basically working, that is, it's 
>possible to continue an existing 'classic' vinum installation with 
>gvinum but it's still not fully functional in all depth. 
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(minor deletes)
I guess my issue is that there should be something in the release 
notes/updating that says "gvinum raid5 is not fully funtional at this 
time".  I would argue that if can't survive a disk failure, it's not 
really RAID5.  You might as well just go stripe and at least get the 
disk space back.  If I hadn't sat down and tested this, I wouldn't have 
known it was broke till I had a drive failure which is not a good time 
to find out.  I like (in general) where this is heading, but we seem to 
be inbetween relieable s/w raid5 solutions in FreeBSD.

jim