From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 16 09:31:37 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AC0A16A407; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:31:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stefan.lambrev@sun-fish.com) Received: from sun-fish.com (blah.sun-fish.com [217.18.249.150]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D30B013C448; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:31:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stefan.lambrev@sun-fish.com) Received: from sun-fish.com (localhost.cmotd.com [127.0.0.1]) by sun-fish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DA95385BC; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:00:06 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.3.125] (cheffo-mobile.cmotd.com [192.168.3.125]) by sun-fish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EABFA3859F; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:00:05 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <45AC9418.60802@sun-fish.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:00:08 +0200 From: Stefan Lambrev User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061230) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Pantyukhin References: <20070115112106.GA2304@genius.tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AV-Checked: ClamAV Cc: Josef Karthauser , stable@freebsd.org, fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell hardware raid 0 (sas5ir) or gmirror? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:31:37 -0000 Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On 1/15/07, Josef Karthauser wrote: >> I'm purchasing a new server, and was wondering what anyone thought about >> whether to pay extra for the SAS5IR card so I can RAID0 the two drives, >> or whether to just rely on gmirror. My worry about the former is that I >> can't seem to find management tools for controlling the hardware >> controller. What if one of the drives fails? How would I know? > > By all means I would go the gmirror way, and I always do > even when a hardware raid controller is already present. I really do not understand this. :) When you say something like this it will be good to explain why you think so. I have few servers with good hw raid controllers and I'm very happy with them, I also use gmirror on my desktop pc, but it is not as good as hw raid on servers for sure. Also it is harder to support it (during OS updates and etc). Also it (gmirror) will put some load on the CPU and hw raid have it's own CPU/memory for this. LSI have a nice tool to monitor/config RAID arrays that just works under fbsd in my case so I'm happy with it. There are a lot of reasons to use hw raids on mission critical servers... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Best Wishes, Stefan Lambrev ICQ# 24134177