Re: Volume Manager on FreeBSD ( ZFS / VINUM / GEOM )

2010-04-20 Thread krad
On 20 April 2010 03:25, Alberto Mijares wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Leandro F Silva > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'd like to know what kind of technology are you using on FreeBSD for > volume > > manager, I mean, Z file system (ZFS), VINUM,

Re: Volume Manager on FreeBSD ( ZFS / VINUM / GEOM )

2010-04-19 Thread Alberto Mijares
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Leandro F Silva wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to know what kind of technology are you using on FreeBSD for volume > manager, I mean, Z file system (ZFS), VINUM, GEOM,  or anyone else. > Seems that Oracle won't offer support for ZFS on op

Volume Manager on FreeBSD ( ZFS / VINUM / GEOM )

2010-04-19 Thread Leandro F Silva
Hi all, I'd like to know what kind of technology are you using on FreeBSD for volume manager, I mean, Z file system (ZFS), VINUM, GEOM, or anyone else. Seems that Oracle won't offer support for ZFS on opensolaris, so do you know if FreeBSD will keep working with ZFS ? I had some old

Software RAID performance? RAID-Z or vinum and RAID5?

2009-03-16 Thread Mike Manlief
SD will destroy my computer, run over my cat, and bail out the investment banking industry. Will it really perform that poorly on a Phenom and 8GB RAM? Significantly more resources than mdadm in Linux? How about compared to RAID 5 under vinum? Thanks, ~Mike Manlief 1: The ability to read the

Vinum/FreeBSD 6.4

2009-02-01 Thread Don O'Neil
Are there any disk size/volume size limitations on Vinum with FreeBSD 6.4? Can I run Vinum on 4 500 G drives and get a 1Tbyte RAID10 config? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

vinum raid degraded

2008-12-12 Thread Gerhard Schmidt
Hi, I'm running a gvinum raid array with 4x80G drives. This raid is running for 4 Years now. Today i found out that the status in degraded. All drives are up but on subdisk is stale. How can get the raid out of degraded mode. I have attached the output of gvinum l Greeting Estartu -- --

Vinum for hard disk drive balanced load sharing configuration example RAID-5

2008-09-18 Thread Nash Nipples
Dear Listmates, Is it possible to configure vinum for balancing the mileage between two and three non-volatile storage devices of a different size I have read the manual thoroughly and noticed that the are certain restrictions applied to the hard drive sizes in the proposed RAID5 data handling

Vinum Raid 5: Bad HD Crashes Server. Can't rebuild array.

2007-10-18 Thread FX Charpentier
Hi there, I setup this FreeBSD 4.9 a while back (I know, I know this isn't the latest version; but look it's been running perfectly since then), with the OS on a SCSI drive and a vinum volume on 3 IDE 200GB drives, hook on a Promise IDE controller. A) The Crash = = = = =

Re: GEOM, Vinum difference

2007-09-27 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 08:51 +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > Rakhesh Sasidharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> I see that if I want to do disk striping/ concating/ mirroring, > >> FreeBSD offers the GEOM utilities a

Re: Pre-geom vinum compatibility

2007-09-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have a 4.11-R box that I'm planning on reinstalling a fresh 6.2-R on. Not an "upgrade", but a fresh binary install after newfsing the system partitions. A remaining planning issue is that I have a pre-GEOM vinum data volume on other disks. The handbook mentions gvinum ret

Pre-geom vinum compatibility

2007-09-21 Thread clear
I have a 4.11-R box that I'm planning on reinstalling a fresh 6.2-R on. Not an "upgrade", but a fresh binary install after newfsing the system partitions. A remaining planning issue is that I have a pre-GEOM vinum data volume on other disks. The handbook mentions gvinum ret

Re: GEOM, Vinum difference

2007-08-22 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
d and of data security. It seems that raid5 has mostly a hype factor for him, but i may err. Anyways it is for such reasons that in the modern geom system, raid3 has been implemented and not raid5. But vinum has been ported to the geom framework for the benefit of old users, or of people who like

Re: GEOM, Vinum difference

2007-08-22 Thread Michel Talon
data security. It seems that raid5 has mostly a hype factor for him, but i may err. Anyways it is for such reasons that in the modern geom system, raid3 has been implemented and not raid5. But vinum has been ported to the geom framework for the benefit of old users, or of people who like it. For example

Re: GEOM, Vinum difference

2007-08-21 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Rakhesh Sasidharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I see that if I want to do disk striping/ concating/ mirroring, FreeBSD offers the GEOM utilities and the Vinum LVM (which fits into the GEOM architecture). Why do we have two different ways of doing the same tasks

Re: GEOM, Vinum difference

2007-08-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rakhesh Sasidharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I see that if I want to do disk striping/ concating/ mirroring, > FreeBSD offers the GEOM utilities and the Vinum LVM (which fits into > the GEOM architecture). Why do we have two different ways of doing the > same tasks

GEOM, Vinum difference

2007-08-20 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Hi, I see that if I want to do disk striping/ concating/ mirroring, FreeBSD offers the GEOM utilities and the Vinum LVM (which fits into the GEOM architecture). Why do we have two different ways of doing the same tasks -- any advantages/ disadvantages to either approach? I did check the

Re: Vinum configuration syntax

2007-08-14 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Modulok wrote: > Take the following example vinum config file: > > drive a device /dev/da2a > drive b device /dev/da3a > > volume rambo > plex org concat > sd length 512m drive a > plex org concat > sd length 512m drive b > 8&l

Vinum configuration syntax

2007-08-13 Thread Modulok
Take the following example vinum config file: drive a device /dev/da2a drive b device /dev/da3a volume rambo plex org concat sd length 512m drive a plex org concat sd length 512m drive b The keyword "concat" specifies the relationship between the plex

Re: Creating vinum RAID 1 on place

2006-07-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 7 July 2006 at 11:29:46 +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a trick on the way to build a vinum RAID 1 without backup-in > the data first? Sometimes. It's described in "The Complete FreeBSD", page 236 or so. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/Docu

Re: vinum stability?

2006-07-07 Thread Ian Jefferson
One thing you might consider is that gvinum is quite flexible. The subdisks in vinum that make up a raid 5 plex are partitions. This means you can create raid 5 sets without using each entire disk and the disks don't need to be the same model or size. It's also handy for spare

Re: Creating vinum RAID 1 on place

2006-07-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 07 July 2006 08:04, John Nielsen wrote: > On Friday 07 July 2006 00:29, Olivier Nicole wrote: > > Is there a trick on the way to build a vinum RAID 1 without backup-in > > the data first? > > > > I have the two disk that will get mirrored. One of the disk if

Re: Creating vinum RAID 1 on place

2006-07-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 07 July 2006 00:29, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Is there a trick on the way to build a vinum RAID 1 without backup-in > the data first? > > I have the two disk that will get mirrored. One of the disk if > formated as UFS 4.2 and already holds all the data. The second

Creating vinum RAID 1 on place

2006-07-06 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Is there a trick on the way to build a vinum RAID 1 without backup-in the data first? I have the two disk that will get mirrored. One of the disk if formated as UFS 4.2 and already holds all the data. The second disk is blank. NormallyI should start with 2 blank disks, label them as vinum

Re: vinum stability?

2006-07-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
as either a hardware RAID setup or the older vinum from FreeBSD-4 and earlier. As for losing data, see above. 2: am I using a SATA controller that has serious problems or something like that? In other words, is this actually gvinum's fault? If you had a failing drive, that's not

Re: vinum stability?

2006-07-05 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 19:05, Peter A. Giessel wrote: > On 7/5/2006 15:56, Jeremy Ehrhardt seems to have typed: > > 3: would I be better off using a different RAID 5 system on another OS? > > You would be best off with a 3ware card (www.3ware.com) running RAID 5 > (hardware raid >> software raid

Re: vinum stability?

2006-07-05 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 7/5/2006 15:56, Jeremy Ehrhardt seems to have typed: > 3: would I be better off using a different RAID 5 system on another OS? You would be best off with a 3ware card (www.3ware.com) running RAID 5 (hardware raid >> software raid). It works great in FreeBSD and is *very* stable and fault tol

vinum stability?

2006-07-05 Thread Jeremy Ehrhardt
I have a quad-core Opteron nForce4 box running 6.1-RELEASE/amd64 with a gvinum RAID 5 setup comprising six identical SATA drives on three controllers (the onboard nForce4 SATA, which is apparently two devices, and one Promise FastTrak TX2300 PCI SATA RAID controller in IDE mode), combined into

Re: is vinum in FBSD 6.0?

2006-06-04 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 2 June 2006 at 5:04:15 -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Travis H. wrote: >> >> Is there some kind of IP lawsuit over vinum or something? > > If so, it's never been mentioned ;-) It has now, but it's the first time I've heard of it. > It's a v

Re: is vinum in FBSD 6.0?

2006-06-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Travis H. wrote: Is there some kind of IP lawsuit over vinum or something? If so, it's never been mentioned ;-) It's a valid question, but I don't think Greg's that kind of guy. As for Veritas, I *think* they had some sort of agreement (re: the name), (but I could be

Re: is vinum in FBSD 6.0?

2006-06-02 Thread bsd
> I recently installed 6.0, and there doesn't seem to be a vinum binary. > > There is a gvinum binary, but it doesn't even implement all of the > commands in its own help screen. > > I'm somewhat confused. Did I screw up my install, or is this normal? > >

Re: is vinum in FBSD 6.0?

2006-06-01 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Travis H. wrote: > I recently installed 6.0, and there doesn't seem to be a vinum binary. > > There is a gvinum binary, but it doesn't even implement all of the > commands in its own help screen. > > I'm somewhat confused. Did I screw up my install, or is this n

is vinum in FBSD 6.0?

2006-06-01 Thread Travis H.
I recently installed 6.0, and there doesn't seem to be a vinum binary. There is a gvinum binary, but it doesn't even implement all of the commands in its own help screen. I'm somewhat confused. Did I screw up my install, or is this normal? Is there some kind of IP lawsui

Re: vinum concat

2006-05-17 Thread Joe Auty
There might be some helpful nuggets in there, but I'm looking to basically combine the storage of multiple disks, like RAID-0, except I want my second drive written to only when my first drive has been filled. I understand this can be done via vinum concatenation. I'm looking f

Re: vinum concat

2006-05-17 Thread Emil Thelin
t/docs/how-to/Vinum/ might be helpful. /e -- http://hostname.nu/~emil ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

vinum concat

2006-05-17 Thread Joe Auty
Hello, Can anybody recommend using vinum to concatenate across two disks? What are the upsides? Downsides? Are their any tutorials explaining how to do so? So far, based on the lack of info I've been able to find, it seems to me that this is a rarely used configuration... I'm

Creating Vinum Volume during install

2006-05-04 Thread Loren M. Lang
I am trying to create a vinum file system during the install so I can also use it for the root filesystem as described in the handbook, but it appears that the geom_vinum modules are not available from the FreeBSD 6.1-RC2 disc 1 LiveCD shell. Are the modules not available or do I need to load

Re: Vinum and upgrading from 5.1-RELEASE

2006-04-13 Thread Emil Thelin
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Chris Hastie wrote: On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Emil Thelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Chris Hastie wrote: I tried to upgrade from 5.1-RELEASE to 5_RELENG last night and hit big problems with vinum. 5_RELENG in retrospect was an error I suspect, as

Re: Vinum and upgrading from 5.1-RELEASE

2006-04-13 Thread Chris Hastie
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Emil Thelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Chris Hastie wrote: I tried to upgrade from 5.1-RELEASE to 5_RELENG last night and hit big problems with vinum. 5_RELENG in retrospect was an error I suspect, as what I really wanted was 5.4-RELEASE. Sin

Re: Vinum and upgrading from 5.1-RELEASE

2006-04-13 Thread Emil Thelin
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Chris Hastie wrote: I tried to upgrade from 5.1-RELEASE to 5_RELENG last night and hit big problems with vinum. 5_RELENG in retrospect was an error I suspect, as what I really wanted was 5.4-RELEASE. Since 5.3 you should probably use the geom-aware gvinum instead of vinum

Vinum and upgrading from 5.1-RELEASE

2006-04-13 Thread Chris Hastie
I tried to upgrade from 5.1-RELEASE to 5_RELENG last night and hit big problems with vinum. 5_RELENG in retrospect was an error I suspect, as what I really wanted was 5.4-RELEASE. The system has two mirrored disks, with Vinum used for the root filesystem. make buildworld, make buildkernel and

Root on vinum volume on freebsd6.0/sparc64

2006-04-03 Thread Stephan Zaubzer
Hi! Is here a way to place the root partition of freebsd in a mirrored vinum volume? I have read tutorials which explain the procedure in more or less detail, but all the tutorials seem to deal with the x86 version. For example the tutorials assume that freebsd is installed on a slice and

Re: Vinum & FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE

2006-01-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 30 January 2006 at 10:31:13 +0300, Forth wrote: > Hi, > I am trying setup a vinum mirrored plex with two disks: >> ad2: 38204MB [77622/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA33 >> ad3: 38204MB [77622/16/63] at ata1-slave UDMA33 > Disks are new and fully functional, but when

Vinum & FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE

2006-01-29 Thread Forth
Hi, I am trying setup a vinum mirrored plex with two disks: >ad2: 38204MB [77622/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA33 >ad3: 38204MB [77622/16/63] at ata1-slave UDMA33 Disks are new and fully functional, but when i do: #vinum start #vinum vinum -> mirror -v -n mirror /dev/ad2 /dev/ad3 i get th

vinum RAID 1, FreeBSD 4-STABLE & two different size drives

2006-01-18 Thread Mark Cullen
only going to be as fast as the slowest drive I imagine)? I've never ever touched vinum before! Thanks in advance for any advice / comments, Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Re: your advice on vinum, RAIDs

2005-12-29 Thread Robert Slade
gt; > > > If you are also looking for more drive space, then raid 5 gives a > > measure of both. > > > > In both cases, the warning of backing up the system first applies. > > > > > Hmmm. What I need is more drive space. Should I look at GEOM > rather t

Re: your advice on vinum, RAIDs

2005-12-29 Thread Martin Cracauer
Joe Auty wrote on Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 10:12:02AM -0500: > Some great advice here! > > What RAID level would you recommend for simply maximizing the hard > disk space I have available? This is just my personal backup machine > and will consist of two drives, so I don't need kick ass performan

Re: your advice on vinum, RAIDs

2005-12-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Joe Auty wrote: Some great advice here! What RAID level would you recommend for simply maximizing the hard disk space I have available? RAID-0 striping. Note that it gives you no redundancy or protection. This is just my personal backup machine and will consist of two drives, so I don't

Re: your advice on vinum, RAIDs

2005-12-29 Thread Joe Auty
Some great advice here! What RAID level would you recommend for simply maximizing the hard disk space I have available? This is just my personal backup machine and will consist of two drives, so I don't need kick ass performance, and I don't need my files mirrored. I take it that striping i

Re: your advice on vinum, RAIDs

2005-12-29 Thread Joe Auty
measure of both. In both cases, the warning of backing up the system first applies. Hmmm. What I need is more drive space. Should I look at GEOM rather than vinum? Do you know whether the drives would need to be reformatted in order to setup the RAID? I'll definitely heed your

Re: your advice on vinum, RAIDs

2005-12-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Joe Auty wrote: I've been considering buying another hard drive for my FreeBSD machine, and building a RAID with my current hard drive so that both drives are treated as one. This is known as RAID-1 mirroring. Do any of you have experience in this area? Is this advisable? Yes and yes. :

Re: your advice on vinum, RAIDs

2005-12-29 Thread Robert Slade
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 06:09, Joe Auty wrote: > Hello, > > I've been considering buying another hard drive for my FreeBSD > machine, and building a RAID with my current hard drive so that both > drives are treated as one. > > Do any of you have experience in this area? Is this advisable? I'm

your advice on vinum, RAIDs

2005-12-28 Thread Joe Auty
Hello, I've been considering buying another hard drive for my FreeBSD machine, and building a RAID with my current hard drive so that both drives are treated as one. Do any of you have experience in this area? Is this advisable? I'm assuming I'd be looking at creating a RAID-5? Can this b

Re: vinum stuck in 'initalizing' state ...

2005-11-28 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Ignore, Google'd a bit longer and found the answer ... On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: but, from what I can tell, is doing absolutely nothing, both via iostat and vinum list ... the server has been 'up' for 15 minutes ... when I accidentally typed 'vinum in

vinum stuck in 'initalizing' state ...

2005-11-28 Thread Marc G. Fournier
but, from what I can tell, is doing absolutely nothing, both via iostat and vinum list ... the server has been 'up' for 15 minutes ... when I accidentally typed 'vinum init vm.p0.s0' instead of 'vinum start vm.p0.s0', the machine hung up and required cold boot

Incorrectly re-synced vinum subdisk

2005-11-10 Thread Ahnjoan Amous
Tonight while checking a few things on my personal machine I noticed that one of my vinum sub disks was stale. Included below are the steps I took attempting to remedy this. Clearly I did not follow the proper procedures and now the volume is un-mountable. Currently when I attempt to mount the

Incorrectly followed steps to re-sync vinum subdisk

2005-11-10 Thread Ahnjoan Amous
Tonight while checking a few things on my personal machine I noticed that one of my vinum sub disks was stale. Included below are the steps I took attempting to remedy this. Clearly I did not follow the proper procedures and now the volume is un-mountable. Currently when I attempt to mount the

Incorrectly followed steps to re-sync vinum subdisk

2005-11-10 Thread Ahnjoan Amous
Tonight while checking a few things on my personal machine I noticed that one of my vinum sub disks was stale. Included below are the steps I took attempting to remedy this. Clearly I did not follow the proper procedures and now the volume is un-mountable. Currently when I attempt to mount the

Incorrectly followed steps to re-sync vinum subdisk

2005-11-08 Thread Ahnjoan Amous
Tonight while checking a few things on my personal machine I noticed that one of my vinum sub disks was stale. Included below are the steps I took attempting to remedy this. Clearly I did not follow the proper procedures and now the volume is un-mountable. Currently when I attempt to mount the

i would like to recover data from my vinum partition

2005-10-04 Thread Milo
I broke my system (did make world with RELENG_5_4 while running 4.10) and I was running mirrored /usr partitions with vinum using ad0 and ad2. This morning I didn't have time to setup vinum and installed 5.4 from cd onto ad0 as usual. How can I see the data on my vinum drive (ad2) using

Re: Help setting up Vinum mirror

2005-10-03 Thread Peter Clutton
going. I was getting confused thinking that it wouldn't add the mount to /etc/fstab , and if i put it in there myself. Apart from adding the vinum_enable etc, will i need to add the info to /etc/fstab referring to the name i gave it in vinum.. I'm starting to get it alot more after reading th

Re: Help setting up Vinum mirror

2005-09-29 Thread FreeBSD usergroup
i have created two slices on two IDE drives and mounted them (through fdisk, label etc), and had that all up and running correctly. I then went into Vinum in interactive mode and (hopefully) created a mirror by typing mirror -d /dev/ad0s2d /dev/ad1s1d . It then gave me successful messages

Re: Help setting up Vinum mirror

2005-09-29 Thread Drew Tomlinson
mounted them (through fdisk, label etc), and had that all up and running correctly. I then went into Vinum in interactive mode and (hopefully) created a mirror by typing mirror -d /dev/ad0s2d /dev/ad1s1d . It then gave me successful messages and gave the drive a name and said it's "up&q

Re: Help setting up Vinum mirror

2005-09-29 Thread FreeBSD usergroup
all up and running correctly. I then went into Vinum in interactive mode and (hopefully) created a mirror by typing mirror -d /dev/ad0s2d /dev/ad1s1d . It then gave me successful messages and gave the drive a name and said it's "up". I'm just wondering after this point, can

Help setting up Vinum mirror

2005-09-29 Thread Peter Clutton
Hi, I have gone through the docs on this but am just missing a couple of points conceptually, and would be grateful for any help. Basically i have created two slices on two IDE drives and mounted them (through fdisk, label etc), and had that all up and running correctly. I then went into Vinum in

Re: Vinum migration 4.x-5.4

2005-08-19 Thread Paul Mather
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:01:55 -0500, Robin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There seems to be a consensus in the references I've found that vinum > is completely broken on 5.4 and that gvinum/geom_vinum is not ready > for production use. As it seems to me, this means that

Re: Vinum migration 4.x-5.4

2005-08-19 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:01:55AM -0500, Robin Smith wrote: > There seems to be a consensus in the references I've found that vinum > is completely broken on 5.4 That is true. IMHO it should be removed from RELENG_5 and _6 if it isn't already. > and that gvinum/geom_vin

Vinum migration 4.x-5.4

2005-08-19 Thread Robin Smith
There seems to be a consensus in the references I've found that vinum is completely broken on 5.4 and that gvinum/geom_vinum is not ready for production use. As it seems to me, this means that anyone using 4.11 (say) and vinum will have to abandon vinum (i.e. quit doing software RAID) in ord

vinum problem

2005-08-02 Thread yuri
Hi all, I'm makara from Cambodia. I'm freebsd newbie. I try to configure vinum I always get this messages every time when I start vinum vinum: Inappropriate ioctl for device and a few minute later my pc is restart. I hope you can solv the problem. Thanks sorry for

Re: Vinum Bootstrap Help

2005-07-22 Thread David Kelly
On Jul 22, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Ben Craig wrote: However, it appears that the vinum config isn't being saved, as rebooting the machine can't find the vinum root partition, and after manually booting to the pre-vinum root (ufs:ad0s1a) running vinum > list shows no volume

Vinum Bootstrap Help

2005-07-22 Thread Ben Craig
Hi All, I've been trying to get a bootstrapped vinum volume up and running on a 5.4 release system (generic kernel, minimal install), based this How-to: http://devel.reinikainen.net/docs/how-to/Vinum/ But I've managed to run into a problem that no amount of Googling, reading the

Re: Vinum subdisk crash

2005-06-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
: > Hello everyone, > > Just to add, I had to type out the above message manually since I can't get > access to anything with the crashed subdisk on /usr. > With regard to Greg's requests for information when reporting vinum problems > as stated on vinumvm.org <http://vinumv

Re: Vinum subdisk crash

2005-06-30 Thread Gareth Bailey
Hello everyone, Just to add, I had to type out the above message manually since I can't get access to anything with the crashed subdisk on /usr. With regard to Greg's requests for information when reporting vinum problems as stated on vinumvm.org <http://vinumvm.org>'s w

Vinum subdisk crash

2005-06-30 Thread Gareth Bailey
Hello, It appears that one of the vinum subdisks on my server has crashed. On rebooting I get the following message: <-- start message --> Warning: defective objects V usr State:down Plexes:2 Size:37GB P usr.p0 C State:faulty Subdisks:1 Size:37GB P usr.p1 C State:faulty Subdisks:1 Siz

Re: Vinum and Volumes Larger Than 2TB

2005-06-29 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/27/05, Bri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm attempting to use Vinum to concat multiple plexes together to make a > single 4.5TB volume. I've noticed that once I hit the 2TB mark it seems to > fail, it looks like once it hits 2TB the size

Re: Vinum & GVinum Recommendations

2005-06-27 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 6/27/2005 12:04 PM Mac Mason wrote: On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:57:15AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'd appreciate hearing of your experiences with vinum, gvinum, and ccd, especially as they relate to firewire devices. In my experience, vinum doesn't play well with

Re: Vinum & GVinum Recommendations

2005-06-27 Thread Mac Mason
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:57:15AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I'd appreciate hearing of your experiences with vinum, gvinum, and ccd, > especially as they relate to firewire devices. In my experience, vinum doesn't play well with GEOM, and gvinum isn't anywhere near

Vinum & GVinum Recommendations

2005-06-27 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I am using 4.11 and have been a FBSD user since the beginning of version 4. I successfully used vinum to create concatenated volumes that have grown over time. Vinum has proved very stable as long as the drives were IDE or SCSI. However I outgrew the confines of my case and added a firewire

Vinum and Volumes Larger Than 2TB

2005-06-27 Thread Bri
Howdy, I'm attempting to use Vinum to concat multiple plexes together to make a single 4.5TB volume. I've noticed that once I hit the 2TB mark it seems to fail, it looks like once it hits 2TB the size gets reset to 0. Example below, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# vinum create /etc/vinu

vinum question: ide chain crashed, one or two drives dead?

2005-06-22 Thread Joseph Kerian
moved from configuration Jun 20 04:30:44 nene kernel: ad3: WARNING - removed from configuration Jun 20 04:30:44 nene kernel: ata1-master: FAILURE - unknown CMD (0xb0) timed out Jun 20 04:30:44 nene kernel: vinum: ideraid.p0.s0 is crashed by force Jun 20 04:30:44 nene kernel: vinum: ideraid.p0 is degra

Re: vinum question

2005-06-05 Thread TAOKA Fumiyoshi
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 14:14:43 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i'm reading about vinum disk manager, did some test, works fine. > > but the question - could root partition be vinum volume? (i have compiled > kernel with vinum built in, not as mod

vinum question

2005-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i'm reading about vinum disk manager, did some test, works fine. but the question - could root partition be vinum volume? (i have compiled kernel with vinum built in, not as module). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: vinum: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2005-05-28 Thread FreeBSD questions mailing list
On 28 mei 2005, at 09:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] you're welcome maybe the complete vinum chapter should be removed from the handbook? Arno Perhaps the Vinum chapter should say up front that Vinum works with FreeBSD 4.x but not with 5.x jd yeah better idea

Re: Vinum problems on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE

2005-05-28 Thread FreeBSD questions mailing list
about this for the lastcouple of days # /etc/vinum.conf volume var plex name var.p0 org concat drive va device /dev/ad0s1g sd name var.p0.s0 drive va length 256m plex name var.p1 org concat drive vb device /dev/ad1s1d sd name var.p1.s0 drive vb length 256m When I create it, using -f, I get: vi

Re: vinum: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2005-05-28 Thread FreeBSD questions mailing list
On 27 mei 2005, at 16:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] not very encouraging... Is it a RAID 5 you were able to make work under 5.4? jd hey yeah a 3x160 GB RAID5 and 2x80 GB RAID 1 in FreeBSD 5.4-p1 i get the same error message everytime i start vinum or whenever i execute a command

Re: vinum: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2005-05-28 Thread web
[...] you're welcome maybe the complete vinum chapter should be removed from the handbook? Arno Perhaps the Vinum chapter should say up front that Vinum works with FreeBSD 4.x but not with 5.x jd Janos Dohanics [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.3dresearc

Vinum problems on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE

2005-05-28 Thread Kris Kirby
oncat drive vb device /dev/ad1s1d sd name var.p1.s0 drive vb length 256m When I create it, using -f, I get: vinum -> l 2 drives: D vaState: up /dev/ad0s1g A: 1791/2048 MB (87%) <- note triple allocation D vbState: up /dev/ad1s1d A:

Re: vinum: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2005-05-27 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
FreeBSD questions mailing list wrote: i tried Gvinum too but that doesn't have the setstate nor the ruibld parity command and still you can't stop gvinum (gvinum stop doesn't work, nor does kldunload geom_vinum.ko) try gmirror for raid 1. it worked great for me. could gmirror and gstripe

Re: vinum: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2005-05-27 Thread FreeBSD questions mailing list
On 27 mei 2005, at 16:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Go back to 4.11! vinum is a nightmare in 5.4 and gvinum is not nearly mature enough... I do have it running but every update it takes me 2 days to get the RAIDs back up Arno Arno, not very encouraging... Is it a RAID 5 you

Re: vinum: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2005-05-27 Thread FreeBSD questions mailing list
On 26 mei 2005, at 23:10, jd wrote: I am trying to set up Vinum on a new system, and I get the error message: "vinum: Inappropriate ioctl for device". Here are the details: ... Vinum used to work beautiful under 4.11; I'm wondering what do I need to change to make it

Re: vinum: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2005-05-26 Thread Andrea Venturoli
jd wrote: I am trying to set up Vinum on a new system, and I get the error message: "vinum: Inappropriate ioctl for device". Here are the details: - FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE I'd be glad if someone steps in and says I'm wrong, but AFAIK vinum is not supported anymore on new r

vinum: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2005-05-26 Thread jd
I am trying to set up Vinum on a new system, and I get the error message: "vinum: Inappropriate ioctl for device". Here are the details: - FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE - vinum list 3 drives: D a State: up /dev/ad0s1g A: 0/74692 MB (0%) D b

Re: Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum?

2005-05-13 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Greg 'groggy' Lehey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > There have been issues with growfs in the past; last time I looked > it hadn't been updated to handle UFS 2. If you don't need the UFS 2 > functionality, you might be better off using UFS 1 if you intend to > grow the file system. growfs gained

Re: Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum?

2005-05-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 10 May 2005 at 16:05:50 -0500, Tony Shadwick wrote: > I've worked with RAID5 in FreeBSD in the past, with either vinum or a > hardware raid solution. Never had any problems either way. > > I'm now building a server for myself at home, and I'm creating a la

Re: Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum?

2005-05-11 Thread Tony Shadwick
On Wed, 11 May 2005, Subhro wrote: On 5/11/2005 19:33, Tony Shadwick wrote: The problem I've had in the past in Windows for example: Drive D: is a RAID5 volume, 400GB, nearly full. If I add a 200GB drive to the array, the 'disk' that Drive D: resides on is now ~600GB, but Drive D: will remain 40

Re: Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum?

2005-05-11 Thread Subhro
On 5/11/2005 19:33, Tony Shadwick wrote: The problem I've had in the past in Windows for example: Drive D: is a RAID5 volume, 400GB, nearly full. If I add a 200GB drive to the array, the 'disk' that Drive D: resides on is now ~600GB, but Drive D: will remain 400GB. I would have to utilize a thi

Re: Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum?

2005-05-11 Thread Tony Shadwick
/dev. And the handles remains the same in size irrespective of whether you have 1 hard disk or 100 hard disks in some kind of RAID. Do I need to (and is there a way?) to utilize vinum and still allow the hardware raid controller to do the raid5 gruntwork and still have the ability to arbitrar

Re: Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum?

2005-05-10 Thread Subhro
d the handles remains the same in size irrespective of whether you have 1 hard disk or 100 hard disks in some kind of RAID. Do I need to (and is there a way?) to utilize vinum and still allow the hardware raid controller to do the raid5 gruntwork and still have the ability to arbitrarily gro

Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum?

2005-05-10 Thread Tony Shadwick
I've worked with RAID5 in FreeBSD in the past, with either vinum or a hardware raid solution. Never had any problems either way. I'm now building a server for myself at home, and I'm creating a large volume to store video. I have purchased 3 200GB EIDE hard drives, and a 6

Re: Vinum (Again)

2005-04-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 22 April 2005 at 16:11:55 -0400, Timothy Radigan wrote: > Hi all, > > Ok, I'm still having trouble with vinum, I got it to load at start, but the > vinum.autostart="YES" in /boot/loader.conf returns a "vinum: no drives > found" message. > >

Vinum (Again)

2005-04-22 Thread Timothy Radigan
Hi all, Ok, I'm still having trouble with vinum, I got it to load at start, but the vinum.autostart="YES" in /boot/loader.conf returns a "vinum: no drives found" message. I had the mirrored set up and running before the reboot and the file system was mounted and everyt

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