Hi!
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:49:31AM -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote:
>
> I used to use vinum, but I'm now using a 3ware controller. It's
> *SOOO* nice to have something that's easy to set up, yet "just works".
>
> My issues with vinum are:
>
> [ Note: it's been a year or two since I've used vinum, and so the
> following may be out-of-date. Corrections appreciated. ]
>
> * Once set up, vinum works well, but it takes a lot of hard reading to
> set up. The actual work itself is not hard, mind you, but it's
> difficult to figure out what you need to put into the config file.
vinum, IMHO, has the BEST manpage I've ever seen out of an open source product.
It has a ton of examples and explains things very well although it's quite
lengthy. Therefore i'm not sure what the issue was with setting up the mirror.
It might require a bit of reading at first but once you find it, you realize
that vinum is really a cinch :)
>
> It's *SO* much easier to configure the 3ware controller ....
Never done it:)
>
> * Vinum is not part of the GENERIC kernel. I had /usr on a
> vinum-controlled partition, and upgrading FreeBSD via CDs was a royal
> pain. I basically had to do the upgrade to the root drive (moving
> /usr out of the way, rebuild the kernel with vinum, reboot, and then
> copy/move the contents of /usr into the vinum-controlled /usr --
> bleah).
>
> [ Today, I should be able to kldload vinum, but I don't think I can do
> this at install time from the CDROM, and so I'd still have to play
> games with /usr. ]
>
> The 3ware driver is part of GENERIC, and so upgrades/installation is
> completely painless.
>
> My root partition is also on a 3ware-controlled drive; you can't do
> this with vinum (vinum is, however, very cost-effective ;-).
>
> * (This may have changed.) There is no documentation on how to do
> disaster recovery with vinum. The procedure is (roughly) documented
> with 3ware (although I should, but have not, admittedly, tested it).
>
Hmm.. I think I remember seeing some documentation on disaster recovery. Such
as detaching mirrors, etc.
Cheers,
-JD-
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