>>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Szymanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> 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. > > Brian> Are you using vinum Raid5 ? I'm considering rolling back to 5.1 > Brian> myself if someone attests that things "just work" there with > Brian> R5, then waiting for gvinum to mature before getting my machine > Brian> back on stable. > > Brian> Also, when did vinum stop working in favor of gvinum? is it > Brian> with 5.3? Could I expect 5.2.1 to work? Pardon the barrage of > Brian> questions, but it would take me hours to test each case, so if > Brian> anyone knows, drop me a line. Thanks! > > In 5.3, it appears that you can load vinum or gvinum. Vinum appears > to have the functionality (and bugs) that it had back in 5.1. The > only missing function seems to be the ability to swap to a vinum > volume.
Actually I experienced a number of bugs with vinum in 5.3 that proved fatal to a root vinum install (in fact, everything on the second ATA channel was marked down after every reboot if I recall correctly). As for the swap: why would you want to do that? It was my understanding that the kernel load balanced swap requests across drives? Cheers, Brian > Dave. > > -- > ============================================================================ > |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be > | > |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | equal if and only if they > | > |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. > | > =========================================================GLO================ > -- Brian Szymanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
