Re: gvinum again?

2004-11-15 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 02:31 -0500, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 01:26:54 -0500, Paul Mather [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your observation is correct: it doesn't (yet) load balance across plexes of mirrored volumes; geom_mirror (gmirror) does, though (and offers various

Re: gvinum again?

2004-11-15 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
Hi, Am Montag, 15. November 2004 18:25 schrieb Paul Mather: [...] I don't know if growfs is 100% robust enough yet to provide the other important ingredient to a true LVM storage management system a la the logical volume manager on AIX or AdvFS on Tru64, say. Yes, it is. I use (g)vinum

Re: gvinum again?

2004-11-15 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 19:33 +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: Hi, Am Montag, 15. November 2004 18:25 schrieb Paul Mather: [...] I don't know if growfs is 100% robust enough yet to provide the other important ingredient to a true LVM storage management system a la the logical volume

Re: gvinum again?

2004-11-15 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:33:36PM +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: Am Montag, 15. November 2004 18:25 schrieb Paul Mather: [...] I don't know if growfs is 100% robust enough yet to provide the other important ingredient to a true LVM storage management system a la the logical volume

Re: gvinum again?

2004-11-15 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
Hi, Am Montag, 15. November 2004 19:41 schrieb Paul Mather: On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 19:33 +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: The extension of filesystems on concat plexes works (simply) as advertised... :-) At least *I* had no problems so far. That's encouraging to hear! Can you shrink

gvinum again?

2004-11-14 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I'm looking at gstat while fsck'ing a gvinum partition. The trouble I'm seeing is that I don't see activity on the second disk. Now... I'm using fsck -n ... just checking things ... so there's no writes, but does gvinum not (yet) load balance on reads?

Re: gvinum again?

2004-11-14 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 00:36 -0500, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: I'm looking at gstat while fsck'ing a gvinum partition. The trouble I'm seeing is that I don't see activity on the second disk. Now... I'm using fsck -n ... just checking things ... so there's no writes, but does gvinum not (yet)

Re: gvinum again?

2004-11-14 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 01:26:54 -0500, Paul Mather [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your observation is correct: it doesn't (yet) load balance across plexes of mirrored volumes; geom_mirror (gmirror) does, though (and offers various load-balancing options). Is this something planned for the near future?