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From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 11:49:20AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>=20
> >Basically, I have 5x72G drives ... I'd *love* to do RAID5 with them, but=
 that doesn't appear to be available right now
>=20
> Maybe you could try geom_raid3 instead? It's pretty nice, especially for =
databases. The only caveat is that you cannot boot off it if you use all th=
e drives. Maybe raid3(3=20
> drives for data)+mirror(2 disks for system) will be useful to you (since =
you can boot a mirrored drive).
>=20
> (note that geom_raid3 is not RAID3 as theoretically defined, but more lik=
e RAID4).

This is RAID3, RAID4 is totally different.

--=20
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