In the past when I've had vinum problems, if I followed Greg's
instructions, he has been very helpful. As he has stated numerous
times he _needs_ the information he's asked for in the format he
asked for, or he won't be able to help.
I've yet to have vinum cause data loss, but I'm not running raid 5
either, just mirroring. If I've needed raid 5 or raid 50 then I've
needed the whole machine to be raid 5/50 including the root/boot
partition.
As has been pointed out, this is young, and experimental software
not nearly the milage that veritas has, or hp's lvm, or the aix
equivalent. Its maintained on a volunteer pro-bono basis.
Also, any opensource or even closed source solution need to be
tested and verified for their suitability. Software Raid works
well if you've tested it in your enviorment, Suns disk suite
comes to mind on my sparcs, I've had hardware raid cards fail
and eat everything also.
In a _mission_ critical enviroment you need to have a recovery
plan. Not having one is poor practice. Not have proper backs
is even poorer practice. Free software does not imply no cost.
If the expertise aren't availible to support this free stuff then
there is going to be a substantial cost in lost productivity and
lost data.
I now return you to your regularily scheduled noise.....
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