Re: vinum raid5: newfs throws an error

2004-12-06 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Greg 'groggy' Lehey writes: There was once an error in the stripe size calculations that meant that there were holes in the plexes. Maybe it's still there (old Vinum is not being maintained). But you should have seen that in the console messages at create time. Vinum reports the

Re: vinum raid5: newfs throws an error

2004-12-06 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 6 December 2004 at 23:44:59 +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey writes: There was once an error in the stripe size calculations that meant that there were holes in the plexes. Maybe it's still there (old Vinum is not being maintained). But you should have seen that

Re: vinum raid5: newfs throws an error

2004-12-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 6 December 2004 at 3:05:31 +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote: Hi all, now that I can use the full capacity of my disks, I'm stuck again. I'm trying to set up a raid5 from three SCSI disks (I know that a serious raid5 should use five disks or more, but I have to make do with three at

Re: vinum and newfs

2003-07-17 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 10:26, Mike Maltese wrote: What impact do disk block and fragment sizes have on a vinum volume? I've been benchmarking an array of three drives in striped and raid5 configurations with various stripe sizes. I've noticed that I get better results in just about every