On Sep 9, 2005, at 07:31, Michael Butler wrote:
Swap is the first slice which is not
mirrored and the second slice contains the bootable file-system which
is
mirrored.
What happens to a running system if the disk dies and swap suddenly
disappears? :)
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To: Tomas Palfi
Subject: Re: vinum or gvinum
Hi,
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:04:42PM +0100, Tomas Palfi wrote:
> Thanks for this update, I am configuring the gmirror as per the
> instructions, however, there is one thing which bothers me a bit.
>
> bsdlabel -e /dev/mirror/gm0s1 when
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Tommi Lätti wrote:
| 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
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 whic
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:20:47PM +0100, Tomas Palfi wrote:
> I thought I could check previous gvinum config with the gvinum> list
> command in its own shell. When I run this command for either gvinum or
> vinum, they both reported no volumes.
You should be able to use the list command to view th
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From: Stijn Hoop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 08 September 2005 13:09
To: Tomas Palfi
Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: vinum or gvinum
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:59:27PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> Did you start from scratch by wiping the
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:59:27PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> Did you start from scratch by wiping the former configuration without loading
> gvinum?
>
> Use
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1m count=128
>
> to be sure. Do this WITHOUT loading any of the vinum modules.
:( Forgot to add a bi
Hi,
First: do _NOT_ use vinum on 5.4, use gvinum.
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 12:43:01PM +0100, Tomas Palfi wrote:
> I am still struggling to set up a one way mirror on two 72GB disks on
> 5.4 intel platform, however, there seems to be a lot of confusion about
> what to use in the first place. this i
Hi all,
I am still struggling to set up a one way mirror on two 72GB disks on
5.4 intel platform, however, there seems to be a lot of confusion about
what to use in the first place. this is vinum v gvinum. I have managed
to get to the point where I can fsck all volumes, however when rebooting
the
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 04:48 +0200, Vladimir Botka wrote:
> Hi,
> vinum is not stable under 5.4. After some "research" I found gmirror
> (RAID1) is ok. There are some notes on:
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/errata.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> Vladimir.
>
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Paul Mather wrote
SD/current/2004-11/0537.html)
when doing raid 5 but works fine when striping.
Should I go vinum or gvinum? Will newfs have problems with a 4 TB
volume? Are there any performance-degradation doing striping?
In addition to vinum and gvinum, have you considered geom_stripe? See
gstripe(8) for details.
i386.
> >
> > According to some threads gvinum may not be completely stable (in 5.3,
> > http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2004-11/0537.html)
> > when doing raid 5 but works fine when striping.
> >
> > Should I go vinum or gvinum? Will
o some threads gvinum may not be completely stable (in 5.3,
> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2004-11/0537.html)
> when doing raid 5 but works fine when striping.
>
> Should I go vinum or gvinum? Will newfs have problems with a 4 TB
> volume? Are there any pe
-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2004-11/0537.html)
when doing raid 5 but works fine when striping.
Should I go vinum or gvinum? Will newfs have problems with a 4 TB
volume? Are there any performance-degradation doing striping?
According to the vinum-pages in the handbook a vinum-volume should be
formatted
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