Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 20:49:15 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> Cc: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5? Message-ID: <20051208194915.GC948@unixpages.org> In-Reply-To: <20051208133100.GC912@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20051208001857.68ac4fef.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20051208133100.GC912@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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--eHhjakXzOLJAF9wJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 02:31:00PM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:18:57AM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > > I was thinking about gvinum for the storage server, but given the > > current documentation and the discussions about it now, I don't want to > > risk it. >=20 > IMHO it's pretty stable in 6.0. I've been running gvinum RAID-5 for a > while now; other than one strange panic (something to do with out of > memory situations, see kern/89660) I haven't had a hitch yet. That > said, I haven't needed to replace a disk yet either (I've demoed this > but it was not yet needed in production use). >=20 > In short, don't write gvinum off just yet. Documentation is around the > corner (as a result of a SoC project). >=20 Actually gvinum(8) has been committed to CURRENT and RELENG_6 a couple of days ago. - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --eHhjakXzOLJAF9wJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDmI47bHYXjKDtmC0RArSLAJ0d7GeOTHzqajbAPAghrBG8xUDYkACgpHR0 EsJhfaAW8sjm8EpLqLon7t4= =+MmE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --eHhjakXzOLJAF9wJ--
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