vinum or gvinum

[Tommi Lätti]

On 8.9.2005, at 21.26, Stijn Hoop wrote:

> By the way, you can also consider geom_mirror, for which an excellent
> article is available here:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/
>
> Both gvinum and gmirror approaches are able to boot from a mirrored  
> system
> disk. It depends on other factors which one you choose.

I have to vouch for gmirror system. I have three production machines  
here running and booting from gmirror on since 5.3-REL and they're  
all doing fine. Even after I upgraded 5.3 -> 5.4 and during the first  
boot I saw the "updating metadata" -message. Made me sweat for a few  
seconds.

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