Vinum questions

2004-12-08 Thread Faisal Ali
Hello, I want to be alerted when a disk on the server fails, does Vinum generate syslog when a disk part of a mirror volume fails? Faisal Ali Kintetsu Global IT Inc. Network Engineer 100 Jericho Quadrangle, Suite 144 Jericho, NY 11753 ___ [EMAIL

Vinum questions

2004-07-14 Thread Fernando Sanchez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm playing a bit with vinum. I'm trying to get to work RAID-0 (Striping) on 5.2.1-Release. The two hdds I'm using are slightly different (38162MB and 39079MB) If I set vinum to use the same size for both it works nicely, but if I try to use all

Re: Stupid vinum questions

2003-12-11 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: 3) Is there some fine manual around, that could be used as a starting point for reading? (I had a look at at my copy of The Complete FreeBSD, but I guess I wouldn't ask these questions, if I had understood it.) Maybe it would be a

Stupid vinum questions

2003-12-10 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Hi! Before I start experimenting, I would like to find out, if I am on the right track. I have got some old and small SCSI harddisks left. 1) Can I use vinum to make them look like one big ufs slice (or is it more like a partition, which can be sliced)? 2) Can I boot from such a thing, or do I

Re: Stupid vinum questions

2003-12-10 Thread Alexander Haderer
At 17:57 10.12.2003 +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: I have got some old and small SCSI harddisks left. 1) Can I use vinum to make them look like one big ufs slice (or is it more like a partition, which can be sliced)? Its like a partition/partitions that you newfs and mount like: mount

Re: Stupid vinum questions

2003-12-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 10 December 2003 at 17:57:56 +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Hi! Before I start experimenting, I would like to find out, if I am on the right track. I have got some old and small SCSI harddisks left. 1) Can I use vinum to make them look like one big ufs slice (or is it

Re: couple of vinum questions from a vinum newbie.

2002-12-09 Thread Mark Rowlands
On Monday 09 December 2002 12:45 am, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 8 December 2002 at 17:04:28 +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote: I have decided to dip my toe into the vinum waters primarily for improved read performance, not redundancy or reliability. I have backups for that ;-). I

Re: couple of vinum questions from a vinum newbie.

2002-12-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 10 December 2002 at 7:08:15 +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote: On Monday 09 December 2002 12:45 am, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 8 December 2002 at 17:04:28 +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote: I have decided to dip my toe into the vinum waters primarily for improved read performance,

couple of vinum questions from a vinum newbie.

2002-12-08 Thread Mark Rowlands
I have decided to dip my toe into the vinum waters primarily for improved read performance, not redundancy or reliability. I have backups for that ;-). I have two questions, one related to optimal stripe size and one to gathering statistics. I have a freshly cvsupped 4.7 stable currently

Re: couple of vinum questions from a vinum newbie.

2002-12-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 8 December 2002 at 17:04:28 +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote: I have decided to dip my toe into the vinum waters primarily for improved read performance, not redundancy or reliability. I have backups for that ;-). I have two questions, one related to optimal stripe size and one to