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From: Mark Bucciarelli <mark@gaiahost.coop>
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On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 03:09:09PM -0500, Rick C. Petty wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:30:37AM -0700, R. B. Riddick wrote:
> > 
> > Oh! And I am experimenting with my geom_raid5 implementation... But it is quite
> > slow in write to UFS (but non-concurrrent write to raw-device is quite fast
> > already). U can download it here (but it is quite difficult to integrate - many
> > files have to be changed handish):
> >   http://home.tiscali.de/cmdr_faako/geom_raid5.tbz
> 
> Is everybody forgetting about gvinum?  Just because it was
> totally broken in 6.0 and 5.5..

I'd like to use gvinum.  Are you using it in production?  6.1?

How did you set up your root partition?  Swap (in particular, for
handling core dumps).

How did you test it?

My choice is either gvinum or NetBSD Raidframe.  I'd much prefer
the FreeBSD route.

m