Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 17:27:20 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Filesystem Sizes Message-ID: <20011120164450.L16958-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <15354.62956.134167.912141@guru.mired.org>
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On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > f.johan.beisser <jan@caustic.org> types: > > > i don't care for vinum myself. software RAID isn't going to be as reliable > > as hardware. vinum just happens to be better than most versions of > > software RAID. > > Why should software loaded onto a ROM - which is what hardware RAID > uses - be more reliable than software not loaded onto a ROM? the ROM is less likely to be changed. admittedly, prom suffers from many of the same problems that an OS/software raid has: changes by users, controller issues, bad disks, computational errors, configuration errors, bad programming, etc. the software RAID has the additional problems of: changed configuration files, OS changes, device addressing changes (unlikely in *BSD, but it could happen), disk failure causing kernel panics... you get the idea. now, please, in my /experience/, vinum hasn't cut it. i've not used vinum since FreeBSD 3.4 or so, when i ran several tests with it, and lost just about all the data i had on the RAID. it was rather dissapointing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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