vinum problems

[Christian Hiris]

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On Sunday 21 November 2004 14:36, Александр Деревянко wrote:
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>  From my point of view, vinum root partition is really useless. You will
> never have the availability comparable to hardware RAID (i mean,
> downtime), and will have a lot of troubles with booting from it.
>  From my own expirience, the same results as root vinum partition can be
> made easily:
> 1. Make a small partition on every drive in the system. 128 Megs from
> every drive will be enought.
> 2. Make each partition bootable, and every day (by cron job in least
> activity hour) make a dump/restore from the main root partition to all
> other.
> 3. usr, var and all other partitions must reside on vinum partition,
> using rest of the space on the partition.
> 4. Swap partitions must also be made on every drive.

Points 1., 2. (and 4.) also could be solved by setting up a gmirror(8) raid1 
array on the partitions in question. This works w/o the dump/restore/cron and 
the setup process is very simple. There is also a gstripe(8) and a gconcat(8) 
geom-class available in 5.3.

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