vinum or gvinum on FreeBSD 5.4

[Vladimir Botka]

Hi,
vinum is not stable under 5.4. After some "research" I found gmirror 
(RAID1) is ok. There are some notes on:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/errata.html

Cheers,

Vladimir.

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Paul Mather wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 10:39 +0200, Claus Guttesen wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I may implement (g)vinum to stripe two 2 TB raid 5 volumes into a
>> single 4 TB vinum-volume. The volumes reside on a atabeast doing the
>> raid 5. The server is a 5.4 RC2 doing nfs on i386.
>>
>> According to some threads gvinum may not be completely stable (in 5.3,
>> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2004-11/0537.html)
>> when doing raid 5 but works fine when striping.
>>
>> Should I go vinum or gvinum? Will newfs have problems with a 4 TB
>> volume? Are there any performance-degradation doing striping?
>
> In addition to vinum and gvinum, have you considered geom_stripe?  See
> gstripe(8) for details.  I've been using it for a while on 5-STABLE to
> join two 65 GB slices on two different drives into a single 130 GB
> device (/dev/stripe/data in my case).  I have had no stability problems,
> which is why I mention this as a possible solution for you if you're
> worried about the stability of vinum or gvinum in 5.x.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
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