Re: FreeBSD 5.3+ Vinum or Gvinum

2005-03-16 Thread Nick Pavlica
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

Re: FreeBSD 5.3+ Vinum or Gvinum

2005-03-16 Thread John Pettitt
Nick Pavlica wrote: 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

Re: FreeBSD 5.3+ Vinum or Gvinum

2005-03-16 Thread Nick Pavlica
John, That did the trick. I built a new kernel with the GEOM_STRIPE option and added an entry to my fstab to mount the volume(stripe) and everything worked like a charm. In the end this turned out to be much simpler than I had anticipated. I wish this information would have been available in

FreeBSD 5.3+ Vinum or Gvinum

2005-03-15 Thread Nick Pavlica
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

Re: FreeBSD 5.3+ Vinum or Gvinum

2005-03-15 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:01:06PM -0700, 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

Re: FreeBSD 5.3+ Vinum or Gvinum

2005-03-15 Thread Nick Pavlica
Hi Doug, I will take a look at this. Have you used it on any production servers? How does it compare to vinum/gvinum in terms of performance reliability? --Thanks! Nick On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:04:31 -0600, Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:01:06PM -0700, Nick