Re: More on vinum woes

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

For now, it might be better to go with a hardware RAID solution, such as 
3ware controllers.

				Hiten Pandya
				hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx