Andrea,
  I have started testing with gstripe and have had good results to
this point.  I'm still a little unclear about how to make my stripe
persistent after a reboot?  My server consists of three drives.  A
40GB drive that has the operating system and two 200Gb drives that I'm
using for the raid 0 volume.  I was also curious about a couple of
other things.

- There is a .snap directory on the volume.  Is this used by gstripe?  
- I changed the mode to fast and didn't notice any difference in my
basic performance testing.  Is there any advantage of using fast?
- I used newfs -O 2 to create a UFS2 file system on the volume.  Is
this treated like any other UFS2 volume that can utilize fsck, etc?
- How resiliant is this volume if the system were to crash?

--Thanks!
Nick


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:48:39 +0100, Andrea Venturoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nick Pavlica wrote:
> > All,
> >   I would like to set up a raid 0 volume on my 5.3 server using two
> > identical SATA drives.    After reading through a number of documents
> > I noticed that there are two related utilities to do this, Vinum and
> > Gvinum.  Which utility should be used?  It's my understanding that
> > Gvinum is the most current and should be used on 5.3+?  Does the
> > hadbook refer to Vinum, Gvinum or both?
> 
> I'd reccomend you none of them; look here for detailed reasons:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/.
> In brief, I've experienced severe panics with vinum after an upgrade
> from 5.2.1 to 5.3 and gvinum is marked as alpha software and poorly
> documented.
> I'm quite happy with gmirror now, which the tutorial above describes.
> You would use gstripe instead.
> 
>   bye
>         av.
>
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