On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 17:47 +0100, Hiten Pandya wrote: > Dave Hayes wrote: > > Since you are personally using this solution, I'm thinking I could do > > a lot worse. I need reliability more than anything (which is why I've > > gone DragonFly). The way vinum is behaving, maybe I should try this > > strategy and see how it works? > > I have never was able to set my trust on Vinum, given the number of bug > reports that riddle it in the FreeBSD GNATS database. It was written in > good faith, but it is somewhat unwantedly complex. > > At some point, I would like to spend my time in an effort to writing a new > volume manager, for DragonFly. The new volume manager will take into > account the then stable features such as VFS transactions, IO scheduling > and direct-to-DMA facilities. It is not something I have fully thought > out but it will be in the pipeline for the coming year or next.
Would porting Solaris ZFS be easier than writing a new volume manager? Even if porting ZFS would be more difficult, there would be some advantages. It hasn't been released yet, but from what I can tell, ZFS will be a 128-bit, atomic, checksumming filesystem with an integrated volume manager. See http://www.sun.com/2004-0914/feature/ for basics. > For now, it might be better to go with a hardware RAID solution, such as > 3ware controllers. > > Hiten Pandya > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jake Maciejewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
