Vinum problems in 5.3-BETA7?

Frank Mayhar frank at exit.com
Fri Oct 8 09:04:45 PDT 2004


Paul Mather wrote:
> Vinum is known broken in 5.3. :-)  You should be using geom_vinum
> instead.  It will largely be a drop-in replacement for your above Vinum
> configuration.  (I am using it on a similar root-on-vinum setup.)  The
> main changes are these:

What I need to know is whether the raid5 support in gvinum is solid, yet.
I would dearly love to move my desktop system from 4-stable to RELENG_5,
but I have two rather large vinum raid5 filesystems that I really need to
keep.  Is anyone actually using raid5 with gvinum on RELENG_5?  If so,
how stable is it?  (The last I heard, there were still potential data
corruption problems, but I'm hoping that those have been fixed by now.)
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