graid3 - requirements or manpage wrong?

[Willem Jan Withagen]

Brian Szymanski wrote:

>>That is not completely fair for vinum....
>>
>>I've been running vinum now for the better of 3-4 years, and even with a
>>set of very flaky seagate IDE drives I never lost a byte.
>>Vinum has served me well, and I trust gvinum will get there as well.
>>I just left my fileserver at 5.1, which I know is not an option for
>>everybody.
> 
> 
> Are you using vinum Raid5 ? I'm considering rolling back to 5.1 myself if
> someone attests that things "just work" there with R5, then waiting for
> gvinum to mature before getting my machine back on stable.
> 
> Also, when did vinum stop working in favor of gvinum? is it with 5.3?
> Could I expect 5.2.1 to work? Pardon the barrage of questions, but it
> would take me hours to test each case, so if anyone knows, drop me a line.
> Thanks!

[~wjw] root at files> uname -a
FreeBSD files.digiware.nl 5.1-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p11 #3: Sat Dec 
20 16:16:35 CET 2003 
root at freebee.digiware.nl:/mnt2/obj/usr/src51/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

[~wjw] root at files> vinum l
4 drives:
D vinumdrive1           State: up       /dev/ad7s1h     A: 0/58143 MB (0%)
D vinumdrive0           State: up       /dev/ad6s1h     A: 0/58143 MB (0%)
D vinumdrive3           State: up       /dev/ad5s1h     A: 0/58143 MB (0%)
D vinumdrive2           State: up       /dev/ad4s1h     A: 0/58143 MB (0%)

1 volumes:
V vinum0                State: up       Plexes:       1 Size:        170 GB

1 plexes:
P vinum0.p0          R5 State: up       Subdisks:     4 Size:        170 GB

4 subdisks:
S vinum0.p0.s0          State: up       D: vinumdrive0  Size:         56 GB
S vinum0.p0.s1          State: up       D: vinumdrive1  Size:         56 GB
S vinum0.p0.s2          State: up       D: vinumdrive2  Size:         56 GB
S vinum0.p0.s3          State: up       D: vinumdrive3  Size:         56 GB

Note that this is vinum in its most simple state:
- 4* whole disk in vinum.
- NO root or swap or other complicating issues.

This server is only doing one simple thing: NFS en SMB serving. Even SMB is 
still way behind on 2.2.8
And I have not tried in going to the 5.2.1 venture. I only went to 5.1 on this 
box, because it was the last of the mohicans in my home server park not 
running >= 5. So I wanted to get ride of the 4.x tree.
And as you can see I have not tinkered with this box for almost a year.

--WjW