From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 4 17:33:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.infowest.com (ns1.infowest.com [204.17.177.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC8CE37B401 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 17:33:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beware.dragonknight.net (unknown [208.186.107.180]) by ns1.infowest.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 3CD9220FB4; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 18:33:33 -0600 (MDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Samuel Greear To: Walter Betancourt , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vinum Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 18:33:03 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <4.2.2.20010904202136.00dada50@pop3.palace.net> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20010904202136.00dada50@pop3.palace.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01090418330300.00413@beware.dragonknight.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 31 December 1969 05:00 pm, Walter Betancourt wrote: > To all on this great group. > > I would like to plan on creating a freebsd server with vinum using 4 or 5 > drives, > > but am not sure of the stability of vinum. > > Is vinum THE way to go, or only the way because of cost. > > Your opinion please. > > thanks > > Walt > > I've been using Vinum for a number of months on a (private) cvsup mirror / distfiles mirror. I've also run performance tests comparing other options (RAIDFrame/Hardware RAID). I've had no stability issues whatsoever and the performance is quite acceptable. ---------- Samuel J. Greear Developer - GetMegabits, Inc. http://www.itmom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message