Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 09:48:46 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> Cc: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5? Message-ID: <20051209084846.GE912@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20051208194915.GC948@unixpages.org> References: <20051208001857.68ac4fef.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20051208133100.GC912@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20051208194915.GC948@unixpages.org>
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--bKyqfOwhbdpXa4YI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 08:49:15PM +0100, Christian Brueffer wrote: > 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. Ah, I missed that, great :-) --Stijn --=20 Help Wanted: Telepath. You know where to apply. --bKyqfOwhbdpXa4YI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDmUTuY3r/tLQmfWcRAsi4AJoDkxIobftqa4H2FXQzmXDEyKi/RQCgndt9 Ye7jJK4ojPS4q2WkaNGAO6g= =1ge5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bKyqfOwhbdpXa4YI--
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