[Tfug] Updating/upgrading vinum on FreeBSD

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Fri, 12 May 2006, Gordon Zaft wrote:

>  My main disk server box runs FreeBSD 4.11 and has 3
> 80 GB IDE drives running Vinum in a RAID-5
> configuration.  It's been really solid and dependable.
> 
>  However, FreeBSD 4.11 is pretty long in the tooth now
> so I'm thinking I ought to consider migrating to 6.1. 
> In digging around though it looks like Vinum is not
> being actively maintained anymore (it was just pulled
> from NetBSD for example) although it's still
> documented in the FreeBSD handbook.
> 
>  Is there a replacement for software RAID on FreeBSD
> at this time?  Any thoughts on such a migration?  

NetBSD removed it simply because nobody stepped up to maintain it for 
NetBSD.

For FreeBSD, it has moved to the GEOM framework. GEOM Vinum should be 
backwards compatible with old vinum.

Have a look at the gvinum manual page:

 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gvinum&sektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable


(Also see http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200502/diskmirror.html which covers 
some RAID-1 solutions for FreeBSD.)


 Jeremy C. Reed

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