{"id":7340,"date":"2005-05-29T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-30T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/05\/29\/7340\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:33:13","slug":"7340","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/05\/29\/7340\/","title":{"rendered":"..\/\/.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if anyone who reads this actually cares, but while I was initially taken back* by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebsd.org\/cgi\/man.cgi?query=vinum\">vinum<\/a>&#8216;s non-functionality on FreeBSD 5.4, it turns out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebsd.org\/cgi\/man.cgi?query=gmirror\">gmirror<\/a> is quite a bit snazzier and thus far seems far, far easier to use. I&#8217;m also looking forward to combining it with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebsd.org\/cgi\/man.cgi?query=gstripe\">gstripe<\/a> to do RAID0+1 once I have the ability to hook four large disks up to this machine all at once.<\/p>\n<p>gvinum exists as a replacement for vinum which hooks into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebsd.org\/cgi\/man.cgi?query=geom\">geom<\/a>, but it isn&#8217;t documented very well yet, and (at least in this case) I can&#8217;t see a reason to use it.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone is interested in giving it a try, <a href=\"http:\/\/dannyman.toldme.com\/2005\/01\/24\/freebsd-howto-gmirror-system\/\">this simple series of steps<\/a> shows just how easy it is to get a geom\/gvinum-based mirrored root disk is. Gone are the days of installing to one disk then using this to bootstrap two more with vinum, a faked disk label with an &#8216;a&#8217; partition that overlapped the vinum partition, etc.<\/p>\n<p>After this finishes writing the mirror to the second disk I might try the standard tests&#8230; Pulling a disk, bringing it back into a sync&#8217;d mirror, etc. Or maybe I&#8217;ll go to bed.<\/p>\n<p>At least this is getting done.<\/p>\n<p><font size=-4>* I gave up on things for almost a week, thinking I had some weird hardware quirkyness because every other time I&#8217;d do a &#8216;vinum start&#8217; the machine would dump core.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if anyone who reads this actually cares, but while I was initially taken back* by vinum&#8216;s non-functionality on FreeBSD 5.4, it turns out that gmirror is quite a bit snazzier and thus far seems far, far easier to use. I&#8217;m also looking forward to combining it with gstripe to do RAID0+1 once\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14289,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7340\/revisions\/14289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}