Re: gvinum again?

2004-11-15 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
Hi, Am Montag, 15. November 2004 19:41 schrieb Paul Mather: > On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 19:33 +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: > > The extension of filesystems on concat plexes works (simply) as > > advertised... :-) At least *I* had no problems so far. > > That's encouraging to hear! Can you sh

Re: gvinum again?

2004-11-15 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:33:36PM +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: > Am Montag, 15. November 2004 18:25 schrieb Paul Mather: > > [...] > > I don't know if growfs is 100% robust enough yet to provide the other > > important ingredient to a true LVM storage management system a la the > > logica

Re: gvinum again?

2004-11-15 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 19:33 +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: > Hi, > > Am Montag, 15. November 2004 18:25 schrieb Paul Mather: > > [...] > > I don't know if growfs is 100% robust enough yet to provide the other > > important ingredient to a true LVM storage management system a la the > > logi

Re: gvinum again?

2004-11-15 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
Hi, Am Montag, 15. November 2004 18:25 schrieb Paul Mather: > [...] > I don't know if growfs is 100% robust enough yet to provide the other > important ingredient to a true LVM storage management system a la the > logical volume manager on AIX or AdvFS on Tru64, say. Yes, it is. I use (g)vinum pr

Re: gvinum again?

2004-11-15 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 02:31 -0500, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 01:26:54 -0500, Paul Mather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Your observation is correct: it doesn't (yet) load balance across plexes > > of mirrored volumes; geom_mirror (gmirror) does, though (and offers > > variou

Re: gvinum again?

2004-11-14 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 01:26:54 -0500, Paul Mather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your observation is correct: it doesn't (yet) load balance across plexes > of mirrored volumes; geom_mirror (gmirror) does, though (and offers > various load-balancing options). Is this something planned for the near fut

Re: gvinum again?

2004-11-14 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 00:36 -0500, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > I'm looking at gstat while fsck'ing a gvinum partition. The trouble > I'm seeing is that I don't see activity on the second disk. Now... > I'm using fsck -n ... just checking things ... so there's no writes, > but does gvinum not (yet)

gvinum again?

2004-11-14 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I'm looking at gstat while fsck'ing a gvinum partition. The trouble I'm seeing is that I don't see activity on the second disk. Now... I'm using fsck -n ... just checking things ... so there's no writes, but does gvinum not (yet) load balance on reads?